Re: syslog support by default

> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 08:15, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > > > > Can we enable syslog support by default for 7.3?
> > > > >
> > > > > AFAIR, we agreed to flip the default some time ago, we just didn't
> > > > > want to do it late in the 7.2 cycle. Go for it.
> > > >
> > > > I think if no one complains about the lack of syslog on his machine we
> > > > should just remove the option in 7.3+1.
> > >
> > > My experience has been that logging to syslog makes postgres much
> > > slower.
> >
> > What's the problem with this? Even if that's true, you could easily
> > turn off syslog logging by tweaking postgresql.conf.
>
> I was worried about the comment of removing the other options. in 7.3+1.
> At least this is how i interpreted that comment.

In my understanding we are going to turn on the --enable-syslog
*configure* option by default (or remove the configuration option
completely), but not change the syslog option in postgresql.conf
(currently default to 0: that means not output to syslog).
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Tatsuo Ishii