Thread: Re: [GENERAL] What happens when syslog gets blocked?

decibel wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Bill Moran wrote:

> >Well ... "life better" really depends on which failure scenario you're
> >more comfortable with ... personally, I'd rather lose log messages
> >than
> >have the DB system go down.  Of course, if auditing is critical to
> >your
> >scenario, then your priorities are different ...
>
> Bingo. I'm thinking we should make mention of this in the docs...

I propose the following patch.

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> decibel wrote:
> > On Aug 6, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> > >Well ... "life better" really depends on which failure scenario you're
> > >more comfortable with ... personally, I'd rather lose log messages
> > >than
> > >have the DB system go down.  Of course, if auditing is critical to
> > >your
> > >scenario, then your priorities are different ...
> >
> > Bingo. I'm thinking we should make mention of this in the docs...
>
> I propose the following patch.

Committed (on HEAD)

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