From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: syslog_line_prefix |
Date: | 2009-09-28 17:07:05 |
Message-ID: | 20090928170705.GB5269@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane escribió:
> [ please trim the quoted material a bit, folks ]
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > 2009/9/28 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> >> The problem with having the syslogger send the data directly to an
> >> external process is that the external process might be unable to
> >> process the data as fast as syslogger is sending it. I'm not sure
> >> exactly what will happen in that case, but it will definitely be bad.
>
> This is the same issue already raised with respect to syslog versus
> syslogger, ie, some people would rather lose log data than have the
> backends block waiting for it to be written.
That could be made configurable; i.e. let the user choose whether to
lose messages or to make everybody wait.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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