Re: postgresql and syslog

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Michael Nacos <m(dot)nacos(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ibrahim Harrani <ibrahim(dot)harrani(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql and syslog
Date: 2009-08-07 19:56:50
Message-ID: 20090807195650.GB5290@alvh.no-ip.org
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Michael Nacos escribió:

> I would be very surprised if logging had a significant overhead any method
> you choose. there's probably something very wrong with your setup if this
> is the case.

Either something very wrong, or the load is extremely high. In the
latter case perhaps it would make sense to ship syslog to a remote
machine. Since it uses UDP sockets, it wouldn't block when overloaded
but rather lose messages (besides, it means it has low overhead).

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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