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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is dynamic-linker failure messages).
This parameter can only be set at server start.
</para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ The logging collector is designed to never lose messages. This means
+ that in case of extremely high load, server processes could be
+ blocked due to trying to send additional log messages when the
+ collector has fallen behind. In contrast, <application>syslog</>
+ prefers to drop messages if it cannot write them, which means it's
+ less reliable in those cases but it will not block the rest of the
+ system.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
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