Re: BUG: Infinite syslog() loop

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 23:27, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> > > I woke up this morning to a filled root partition on one of my servers.
> > > I found that both debug and syslog were filled with over 50MB each of
> > > postgres errors:
> > Change your syslog configuration to throw away debug messages from
> > postgres (user0)
>
> Um, NO.
>
> I will not configure my system to throw away logging data that's required
> to keep track of normal system operations, because there's a bug causing
> infinite looping.

Oops. I hadn't read your message properly. I've frequently seen
complaints of debug messages in syslog, because people don't realise
they need to configure syslog rahter than postgresql to control them.

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