On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 16:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@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.
