On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 1:32 AM Bharath Rupireddy
<bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> In a production environment (of course with a better management of
> server logs) one can set log_wal_traffic to "high" and emit the
> required info to answer some of the customer questions like - "How far
> the server is in recovery? How much time recovery of each WAL file
> approximately took? How much time will it take to recover all the WAL
> files? What's the rate of recovery - time per WAL file? etc."
>
> Whereas ereport_startup_progress facility will help to emit log
> messages only if "some" operation takes longer than set
> log_startup_progress_interval time which may not serve the above
> purpose.
I think you are misunderstanding what an "operation" is here. If you
take the time to test out that facility, I think you will find that it
is quite capable of answering all of those questions.
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Robert Haas
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