[madhouse]

With a binary log storage system, nothing stops you from browsing all logs that happened around the time of the incident. Instead of locating the files, you just tell the engine to show you the logs from that time onwards (or from a little bit before).

As for our logs being too verbose: nope, read the article.

Also, it's not an one-size-fits-all solution: I have no problem with people using text. All the article wants to show, is that binary logs are not evil, bad, useless, etc, and that there are actually very good reasons to use them.

For example, storing logs in a database is one kind of binary log storage: most databases don't store the data as text.