On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 16:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
>> > Then why not send everything to syslog and have syslog filter it to the
>> > places you want to?  That is what syslog is for, after all.
>>
>> We send all syslog output with the same identifier/priority/facility,
>> so there's not a lot of hope of getting syslog to do any useful
>> filtering (at least not with the versions of syslog I'm familiar with).
>
> Time to upgrade then. ;-)  For example, the default syslog in Fedora has
> been rsyslog since Fedora 8, and that one can do a lot more than just
> filter by identifier/priority/facility.  syslog-ng is another popular
> example for a more featureful syslog.

Presumably csvlog would be good for these sorts of things too, no?
The whole point is it's machine-readable.

...Robert

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