Re: COPYable logs status

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:31:54AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The situation with this patch is that I now have it in a state where I
> think it could be applied, but there is one blocker, namely that we do
> not have a way of preventing the interleaving of log messages from
> different backends, which leads to garbled logs. This is an existing
> issue about which we have had complaints, but it becomes critical for a
> facility the whole purpose of which is to provide logs in a format
> guaranteed to work with our COPY command.

The whole semantics of PIPEBUF should prevent garbling, as long as each
write is a complete set of lines and no more than PIPEBUF bytes long.
Have we determined the actual cause of the garbling?

Have a nice day,
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