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Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
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Creating log files

Now that we’ve taken a deep look at the system views provided by PostgreSQL, it’s time to configure logging. Fortunately, PostgreSQL provides us with an easy way to work with log files and helps people set up a good configuration easily.

Collecting logs is important because it can point to errors and potential database problems. In this section, you will learn how to configure logging properly.

The postgresql.conf file contains all the parameters you need so that you’re provided with all the necessary information.

Configuring the postgresql.conf file

In this section, we will go through some of the most important entries in the postgresql.conf file that we can use in order to configure logging and see how logging can be used in the most beneficial way.

Before we get started, I want to say a few words about logging in PostgreSQL in general. On Unix systems, PostgreSQL will send log information to stderr by default. However, stderr...

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Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
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