Don't use syslog under any circumstances!!!!
1. Syslog breaks up records longer than X number of bytes - you'd
have to piece them together.
2. Communication to syslog is over udp - (i.e. unreliable message
sends) thus message loss can occur.
3. All the other complaints about syslog already mentioned: additional
data added to the logs, etc.
Jim Mercer wrote:
>
> > This is a great idea. I have not been successful in tracking any
> > information on syslog. Any suggestions on where I might find some good
> > documentation on syslog?
> >
> > Just a quick thought, but how about using syslog? That can be used
> > to post queries to a remote server, and it can be told to store the
> > "postgres" stuff to a seperate file on that server.
>
> i don't know that syslog is robust enough for what you want.
>
> i don't think it has any error checking to verify that a message was
> received, etc.
>
> most BSD's and linux would have good refernce ports of syslogd, etc.
>
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