Re: continuous data from stdin

From: Harry Broomhall <harry(dot)broomhall(at)uk(dot)easynet(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: continuous data from stdin
Date: 2003-02-18 18:20:52
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:09:45 +0000 (UTC),
Alexey(dot)Veretennikov(at)comline(dot)uu(dot)ru ("???????????? ???????") wrote:

>Hello, everybody!
>
>I think it's a common question, though I couldn't find any information aboo=
>ut it so far. I've got a program that puts its logs into stdout. What is th=
>e best solution to insert these logs into a table as they occur?
>

It rather depends on the volume of these logs, but a reasonable
first pass, if the volume isn't too big, would be to write a Perl prog
to listen on stdin and write to the database.

If it was me I'd use tee as part of the pipe so I could have an
alternative record if something didn't work.

Regards,
Harry.

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