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Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
Cc: Bear Giles <bear@coyotesong.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>, Michael Devogelaere <michael@digibel.be>, Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-02-01T20:10:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:58:33PM -0500,
  Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> wrote:
> Bear Giles <bear@coyotesong.com> writes:
> 
> Gaah.  Has djb ever heard of syslog(3)?  Or is that too insecure for
> him?

Its called multilog and he feels it is much better than syslog.
Instead of using the network to send data around, a pipe is used.
multilog also does the log rotation (with configurable sizes) so
that you don't have to worry about that.