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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings to all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Im on Debian 4.19.194-2 using syslog-ng 3.19.1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The .conf is set to send all incoming syslog packages into pg database:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">destination d_pgsql {<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> sql(type(pgsql)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> host("127.0.0.1") username("syslog")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> password("syslog") port("5432")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> database("db_syslog")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> table("logs_${HOST}")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> columns("datetime varchar(16)", "host varchar(32)", "program varchar(20)", "pid varchar(10)", "message varchar(800)")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> values("$R_DATE", "${HOST}", "$PROGRAM", "$PID", "$MSG")<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> indexes("datetime", "host", "program", "pid", "message"));<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">};<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When there is a hostname available, the table is created successfully. When hostname can not be resolved, IP Address is used instead. But in this case syslog-ng is unable to create a new table:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt">syslog-ng[499]: Error running SQL query; type='pgsql', host='127.0.0.1', port='5432', user='syslog', database='db_syslog', error='6819553: ERROR: Syntax error at ».168«\x0aLINE 1: CREATE TABLE logs_192.168.75.102
(datetime varchar(16), ho...\x0a ^\x0a', query='CREATE TABLE logs_192.168.75.102 (datetime varchar(16), host varchar(32), program varchar(20), pid varchar(10), message varchar(800))'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt">Error creating table, giving up; table='logs_192.168.75.102'<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The issue seems to be the dot of the IP address.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But dots in table names are possible AFAIK. Im able to manually create this table via HeidiSQL with no issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does the CREATE TABLE statement need to be escaped in some way? Or is there a way to replace the dots from the $HOST macro with underscores?<o:p></o:p></p>
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