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Prefer selective thresholds, sampling, or role-level overrides over indiscriminate capture.","small":"Keep log_min_messages useful but bounded: verify disk, collector, retention, and redaction capacity before increasing detail or frequency."},"mechanism":["log_min_messages sets the message levels that are logged. Each level includes all the levels that follow it. The later the level, the fewer messages are sent. The server-log severity ordering has special placement for LOG and differs from client_min_messages, so a threshold name cannot be copied blindly between them.","log_min_messages is a SUPERUSER-context setting. 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