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Subject: Re: What is postmaster doing?
From: Dimi Paun <dimi@lattica.com>
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On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:24 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> This is controlled by settings in the postgresql.conf file.
> see the appropriate doc page    vv  for your version
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/runtime-config-logging.html

Thanks for the link Reid, this seems to be doing what I need.

Too bad I couldn't figure out what was going on when I was experiencing
the high load, but now that I have the logging enabled, it shouldn't be
a problem to figure things out.

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Dimi Paun <dimi@lattica.com>
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