Re: Proposal: Adding json logging

From: John W Higgins <wishdev(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Arnold <dar(at)xoe(dot)solutions>
Cc: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: Adding json logging
Date: 2018-04-15 17:58:24
Message-ID: CAPhAwGxo9g3nuu7mONeZAWMt+oNHrY+OnLE46Mka0b-3JnBv_w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 10:39 AM, David Arnold <dar(at)xoe(dot)solutions> wrote:

> >More specifically, JSON logging does seem to be a solution in search of a
> problem. PostgreSQL's CSV logs are very easy to machine-parse, and if
> there are corrupt lines being emitted there, the first step should be to
> fix those, rather than introduce a new "this time, for sure" logging method.
>
> >It's a matter of a few lines of code to convert CSV logs to a JSON
> format, if you need JSON format for something else.
>
> In the light of the specific use case / problem for this thread to be
> born, what exactly would you suggest?
>

This would appear to solve multiline issues within Fluent.....

https://docs.fluentd.org/v0.12/articles/parser_multiline

John

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