Re: query log corrupted-looking entries

On Friday 01 June 2007 3:09 pm, George Pavlov wrote:
> On 5/29/2007 10:19 AM, Ed L. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 1:04 pm, George Pavlov wrote:
> > FWIW, I've also been seeing this sort of query log
> > corruption for as long as I can remember, 7.1 through 8.2,
> > HPUX (parisc, ia64), Linux on intel, amd...
>
> Do you have any tricks for dealing with the problem from a
> query analyzer perspective? That is, if you use something like
> pgfouine do you have any quick and easy way to remove those
> lines (and the affected lines around them)? Or someway to
> "fix" the corrupted lines? I'd say that lately ~40% of my
> daily query logs are suffering from this problem making query
> analysis very hard.

Not really. I filter by perl regular expressions, but I wouldn't
say that is reliable. However, our query volumes are high
enough that losing a few here and there is no big deal in
analysis. I long ago realized that reliably replaying query
logs was infeasible due in part to this issue. Regex filtering
is problematic and error-prone (for example, how do you reliably
tell the difference between log timestamp and DB data?).

Perhaps others have better answers.

Ed