Re: WIP - syslogger infrastructure changes

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 15:35 -0600, Joshua Tolley wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:43:46AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > complete but more complex solution.  (dup2 works on Windows, no?)
> 
> Unless I'm misreading syslogger.c, dup2() gets called on every platform.
> 
> I've started the wiki page in question:
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logging_Brainstorm

Most of the items listed there you can already do with a sufficiently
non-ancient syslog implementation.

Has anyone ever actually tested rsyslog and syslog-ng for performance
and robustness with PostgreSQL?  Half the ideas about on-disk queuing
and checkpointing and so on that have been mentioned recently seem to
come straight from their documentations.