Re: Log rotation

Tom Lane wrote:
> Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> writes:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> >> Third, it seems that you don't have enough profiling data to support
> >> a 'syslog is bad' position.
> 
> > That is true.  It is from hearsay, from people who run production 
> > environments.  It may be a belief based on old experiences though.
> 
> I think it's pretty well established that syslog sucks for high log
> volume if you run it in the mode where it fsyncs its log after every
> message.  But I don't believe we have any data that says it's a problem
> even if you avoid that pitfall.

What versions of syslog fsync, and where is the syslog.conf option. I
don't see it on FreeBSD or Linux.

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