Re: syslog configurable line splitting behavior

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: syslog configurable line splitting behavior
Date: 2016-03-09 02:31:08
Message-ID: 56DF8AEC.30308@proxel.se
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On 03/09/2016 03:20 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 3/8/16 9:12 PM, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
>> As someone who uses syslog for my servers I find both of these GUCs
>> useful, especially when used in combination, and I do not think a
>> compile time option like suggest by Alexander would be suitable
>> substitute because then I would need a custom build of PostgreSQL just
>> to change this which seems too much effort just for this.
>
> I think he was suggesting to take the existing compile-time constant and
> make a run-time setting out of it.

Ah, that makes more sense than my reading of his message. Still I do not
think there would be much gain from doing so. I do not see much benefit
from making it configurable. In the cases I envision you would either
want to split with a log file in mind or not split at all.

Andreas

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