On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > How about changing the default for log_directory from 'pg_log' to, say, > > 'log'? > > > We have been emphasizing that the prefix "pg_" is for things reserved to > > PostgreSQL, whereas the pg_log directory is entirely an arbitrary > > user-space name. Also, with a different name, the directory would stand > > out more between all the other pg_* directories in the data directory. > > No objection to the basic point, but "log" seems perhaps a little too > generic to me. Would something like "server_log" be better?
"activity_log"? I like the idea of a rename.
server_log seems like a better choice then I think. So +1 for that.
In theory cluster_log since it's a "cluster level log", but given how many people already get confused by the term cluster being used that way, I think that while maybe technically correct, that would be a very bad choice.