On 6/23/09 11:24 PM, "Chris Lewis" <cle...@nortel.com> wrote:
... > > It isn't the most elegant thing in the world, but I don't have problems > plucking out the logterse lines and feeding them into PostgreSQL. Or > rather, the complexity isn't in plucking the log lines out, it's getting > so damn many of them into PostgreSQL fast enough and keeping the DBMS > structured so that expiration of old records doesn't take weeks. > I have minimal logging to disk (flat file, one line per connection/RECV) and each connection/RECV logging to mysql (report.mysql plugin). With good indices it's possible to keep millions of records and still keep the system responsive. I highly recommend using a DB and insert/update with multiple hooks. (I just lack a good GUI with an auth to browse the table.) peter
