Re: Log a sample of transactions

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Adrien NAYRAT <adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-01-24T21:24:18Z
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:23 AM Adrien NAYRAT
<adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info> wrote:
> On 1/18/19 9:03 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > But if you have trouble with a specific transaction, how will a setting
> > help that randomly logs transactions, not necessarily the one you are
> > concerned about?
>
> Yes, it assumes your application performs same type of transaction.
> Maybe the use case is too specific to have this feature in core?

It doesn't sound too crazy to me.  Say you log a sample of statements.
But then you're like, wow, this is hard to interpret, because I don't
know what happened earlier in the transaction.  So then you use this
feature instead.

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