From 10afaf472a89f46ca0ac570bd88bdf4e40f42bed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:15:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention Linux syslog will sync lines to disk, and describe
how to disable it.
---
doc/TODO | 2 +-
doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml | 14 ++++++++++----
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO
index 8400395ce47..6da74a7748c 100644
--- a/doc/TODO
+++ b/doc/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
TODO list for PostgreSQL
========================
-Last updated: Sat Mar 13 18:17:39 EST 2004
+Last updated: Mon Mar 15 09:06:53 EST 2004
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
index f8372b4f294..e1af27c6ee2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.30 2003/12/14 00:10:32 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.31 2004/03/15 14:15:45 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="maintenance">
@@ -464,13 +464,19 @@ VACUUM
rotation, the <application>logrotate</application> program can be
configured to work with log files from
<application>syslog</application>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ On many systems, however, <application>syslog</> is not very reliable,
+ particularly with large log messages; it may truncate or drop messages
+ just when you need them the most. Also, on <productname>linux</>,
+ <appication>syslog</> will sync each message to disk, yielding poor
+ performance. Use a <literal>-</> at the start of the file name
+ in the <application>syslog</> config file to disable this behavior.
</para>
<para>
- On many systems, however, <application>syslog</> is not very reliable, particularly
- with large log messages; it may truncate or drop messages just when
- you need them the most. You may find it more useful to pipe the
+ You may find it more useful to pipe the
<systemitem>stderr</> of the <command>postmaster</> to some type of
log rotation program. If you start the server with
<command>pg_ctl</>, then the <systemitem>stderr</> of the <command>postmaster</command>
--
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