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Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> smiley2211 wrote:
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> You are CORRECT...my queries were going to /var/log/messages...had to get
>>> the Linux Admin to grant me READ access to the file...
>> You may want to actually get that to stop. Syslog is a notorious
>> performance bottleneck for postgresql.
>
> Can you elaborate? The only reference to this I could find was a
> thread from 2004 where someone wasn't rotating his logs.
I am not sure what to elaborate on :). Syslog is slow, logging to file
isn't. Although both will certainly slow down your installation quite a
bit, syslog will slow it down more.
If I recall correctly, it is because syslog is blocking.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> -Jonathan
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