decibel <deci...@decibel.org> writes:
> We recently had a problem with a database where the /var filesystem
> got corrupted. This appears to have seriously impacted the ability of
> STDERR from Postgres to get put out to disk, which ended up blocking
> backends.
> Because of this we want to switch from using STDERR to using syslog,
> but I'm not sure if syslog() can end up blocking or not.
syslog (at least in the implementations I'm familiar with) has the
opposite problem: when the going gets tough, it starts losing messages.
I do not think you'll really be making your life better by switching.
regards, tom lane
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