Scaling the Wall of Text: Logging Best Practices in PostgreSQL

Something that many PostgreSQL users take for granted is the powerful logging features that it provides.  With the right configuration, DBAs and sysadmins can quickly diagnose performance, security, and configuration issues, saving precious seconds of application uptime.  This talk will cover the major logging parameters in `postgresql.conf`, as well as provide some tips and wisdom gleaned over years of parsing through gigabytes of logs.