On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:20:01PM +0100, Gilles Darold wrote:
> pgBadger is able to parse jsonlog
> (https://github.com/michaelpq/pg_plugins/tree/master/jsonlog) output in
> multi-process mode because it do not use an external library to parse
> the json. In this minimalist implementation I assume that each log line
> is a full json object. Honestly I do not have enough feedback on this
> format to be sure that my basic jsonlog parser is enough, maybe it is
> not. What is really annoying for a log parser is the preservation of
> newline character in queries, if the format outputs each atomic log
> messages on a single line each, this is ideal.
jsonlog generates one JSON object for each elog call, and per line.
Newlines are treated as they would for a JSON object by being replaced
with \n within the query strings, the same way te backend handles JSON
strings as text.
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Michael