Add logging to PostgresQL on Docker

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2015-06-17

Normally, in docker-compose.yml I would just configure a database like this:

db:
  image: postgres:9.4

However, to customise the image, we use our own Dockerfile:

FROM postgres:9.4
ADD config.sh /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/

The contents of config.sh:

perl -pi -e "s/#log_statement = 'none'/log_statement = 'all'/g" \
/var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf

And docker-compose.yml now becomes:

db:
  build: location/of/new/docker/file

Link your app, launch the stack, and start seeing log statements on STDIN:

db_1         | LOG:  statement: BEGIN
db_1         | LOG:  statement: SELECT etc etc