Can this be done to syslog destination?

Evan Rempel
Systems Administrator
University of Victoria

On 2012-05-30, at 10:37 PM, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Evan Rempel <erem...@uvic.ca> writes:
>> Even when the wrap column is set to a very large value (32k) STATEMENT lines 
>> still wrap according to the line breaks in
>> the original SQL statement.
>> Wrapped line no longer have the prefix - difficult to grep the log for 
>> everything pertaining to a particular database or user
>> Wrapped lines no longer have the log line status - difficult to auto-ignore 
>> all NOTICE status log lines when they wrap, or
>> ignore all user STATEMENT lines because they almost always wrap.
> 
> I think your life would be better if you used CSV log format.
> 
>> In conclusion, I would like to see a logging change that included the prefix 
>> on EVERY line, and included the STATUS on every line.
> 
> This doesn't really sound like an improvement to me.  It's going to make
> the logs bulkier, but they're still not automatically parseable in any
> meaningful sense.  CSV is the way to go if you want machine-readable logs.
> 
>            regards, tom lane

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