Re: how to get logger to not break up syslog messages

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: l1(at)nym(dot)hush(dot)com, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to get logger to not break up syslog messages
Date: 2011-02-09 17:22:56
Message-ID: 4D52CD70.2030504@pinpointresearch.com
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On 02/09/2011 09:09 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> l1(at)nym(dot)hush(dot)com writes:
>> The problem I'm running into is that lines are getting broken up.
> Yup, that's intentional.
>
>> This causes problems with some other log-scanners I use. Is the
>> problem postgres or syslog? I know syslog has a maximum message
>> size, but it's a lot longer than what Postgres seems to use.
> syslog's limit is platform-dependent,...

Would that be an argument, perhaps, for making it (yet another, sorry
Josh) GUC?

Cheers,
Steve

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