On Sat, 12 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> One thing that doesn't seemed to be being looked at it is the cost of
> logging.

If any of this executed at something like the query level, sure, that
would be real important. The majority of the logging I suggested here is
of things that happen at checkpoint time. The presumption is that the
overhead of that is considerably greater than writing a log line or even
five.

The least intensive event I would like to be loggable is when a new WAL
segment is created and cleared, which is again a pretty small bit of log
compared to the 16MB write. I wouldn't mind seeing that exposed under
pg_stats instead, just had more interesting things to statify first.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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