log chunking broken with large queries under load

Some of my PostgreSQL Experts colleagues have been complaining to me 
that servers under load with very large queries cause CSV log files that 
are corrupted, because lines are apparently multiplexed. The log 
chunking protocol between the errlog routines and the syslogger is 
supposed to prevent that, so I did a little work to try to reproduce it 
in a controlled way. On my dual quad xeon setup, this script:
   #!/bin/sh   par=$1   seq=$2
   sed 2000q /usr/share/dict/words > words
   psql -q -c 'drop table if exists foo'   psql -q -c 'create table foo (t text)'
   echo '\set words `cat words`' > wordsin.sql   echo 'prepare fooplan (text) as insert into foo values ($1);' >>
wordsin.sql
   for i in `seq 1 $seq`; do      echo "execute fooplan(:'words');" >> wordsin.sql   done
   for i in `seq 1 $par`; do      psql -q -t -f wordsin.sql &   done   wait

called with parameters of 100 and 50 (i.e. 100 simultaneous clients each 
doing 50 very large inserts) is enough to cause CSV log corruption quite 
reliably on PostgreSQL 9.1.

This is a serious bug. I'm going to investigate, but it's causing major 
pain, so anyone else who has any ideas is welcome to chime in.

cheers

andrew