Re: syslog configurable line splitting behavior

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:

> Writing log messages to syslog caters to ancient syslog implementations
> in two ways:
>
> - sequence numbers
> - line splitting
>
> While these are arguably reasonable defaults, I would like a way to turn
> them off, because they get in the way of doing more interesting things
> with syslog (e.g., logging somewhere that is not just a text file).
>
> So I propose the two attached patches that introduce new configuration
> Boolean parameters syslog_sequence_numbers and syslog_split_lines that
> can toggle these behaviors.
>

Would it have any usage if we make PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT configurable (-1 for
disable) instead of introducing boolean?

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