How to log PostgreSQL queries?

Better Stack Team
Updated on November 23, 2022

If you would like to log all PostgreSQL queries into a file, you can do that by changing few settings int the configuration file

Open the data/postgresql.conf file and change the following settings:

  • #log_directory = 'pg_log’ change to log_directory = 'pg_log’
  • #log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log’ change to log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log'
  • #log_statement = 'none’ change to log_statement = 'all’
  • #logging_collector = off change to logging_collector = on
  • Run the following statement:
 
SELECT set_config('log_statement', 'all', true);
  • Then restart the PostgreSQL server
 
sudo service postgresql restart

Now, you can find the logs in the following directory /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/pg_log/

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