Re: Log rotation?

You may be interested in
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-syslog-reliable-12.txt which
builds a reliable syslog protocol on top of BEEP. There are free
implementations of BEEP in C and Java at http://beepcore.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Hagerty" <mhagerty(at)voyager(dot)net>
To: "Ian Lance Taylor" <ian(at)airs(dot)com>; "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>; "PostgreSQL Development"
<pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Log rotation?

> At 08:54 PM 9/5/2001 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >
> > > > And no, "use syslog" doesn't count.
> > >
> > > Why not?
> >
> >The standard implementations of syslog lose log entries under heavy
> >load, because they rely on a daemon which reads from a named pipe with
> >a limited buffer space. This is not acceptable in a production
> >system, since heavy load is often just the time you need to see the
> >log entries.
> >
> >It would be possible to implement the syslog(3) interface in a
> >different way, of course, which did not use syslogd. I don't know of
> >any such implementation.
> >
> >(My personal preference these days is an approach like DJB's
> >daemontools, which separates the handling of log entries from the
> >program doing the logging.)
> >
> >Ian
>
> Greetings,
>
> Kind of ironic, I have been working on a similar logging system for Apache
> that works with PostgreSQL, and I just released 2.0-beta last night. My
> post to announcements was delayed, but you can check it out here:
> http://www.digitalstratum.com/pglogd/
>
> If pgLOGd looks like something similar to what you are looking for, I
could
> probably modify it to log for PostgreSQL. Two of its requirements during
> development were fast and robust, and similar to what you described above
> it does not "process" the entries, that is done later. You also got me
> thinking that maybe syslogd needs an overhaul too...
>
> Matthew
>
>
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