Hi there,<br><br> Okay, looks like I was looking/thinking about something else, so lets explain my problem.<br><br> I want the pid inseted to be a &quot;proper&quot; number/integer, not a string/character, and the fun starts with several of my sources not having a pid entry, thus that field I would like to be filled with NULL values. However, it still gets escaped, and when it gets escaped, the NULL is not null anymore, but the string &#39;NULL&#39; :(<br>
<br> I was hoping that in some why I could coerce syslog-ng to understand 
that that column is a integer column, thus should not be escaped as it 
is currently done ;(<br>
<br>I have the following destination:<br>destination d_pgsql {<br>  sql(type(pgsql)<br>  host(&quot;127.0.0.1&quot;) username(&quot;logwriter&quot;) password(&quot;logwriter&quot;) port(&quot;5432&quot;)<br>  database(&quot;syslog&quot;)<br>
  table(&quot;logs_${HOST}_${R_YEAR}${R_MONTH}${R_DAY}&quot;) #or whatever you want, example ${HOST}&quot; for hosts, ${LEVEL}&quot; for levels.. etc<br>  columns(&quot;datetime varchar(16)&quot;, &quot;host varchar(32)&quot;, &quot;program varchar(16)&quot;, &quot;pid varchar(8) default null&quot;, &quot;message varchar&quot;)<br>
  values(&quot;$R_DATE&quot;, &quot;$HOST&quot;, &quot;$PROGRAM&quot;, &quot;${PID:-NULL}&quot;, &quot;$MSG&quot;)<br>  indexes(&quot;datetime&quot;, &quot;host&quot;, &quot;program&quot;, &quot;pid&quot;, &quot;message&quot;));<br>
};<br><br>and the following log lines:<br><br>Incoming log entry; line=&#39;&lt;166&gt;Feb 22 08:38:59 Vpxa: [2011-02-22 08:38:59.862 1B7A7B90 verbose \&#39;App\&#39;] [VpxaHalServices] HostChanged Event Fired, properties changed []&#39;<br>
Running SQL query; query=&#39;INSERT INTO logs_somedevice_20110222 (datetime, host, program, pid, message) VALUES (\&#39;Feb 22 11:39:27\&#39;, \&#39;somedevice\&#39;, \&#39;Vpxa\&#39;, \&#39;NULL\&#39;, \&#39;[2011-02-22 08:38:59.862 1B7A7B90 verbose \&#39;\&#39;App\&#39;\&#39;] [VpxaHalServices] HostChanged Event Fired, properties changed []\&#39;)&#39;<br>
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