[syslog-ng]Feature Request

[Mordechai T. Abzug]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:04:25PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:

> It looks like I'll have to go with raw data output, probably
> pipe-delimited with the $MSG text as the last field.  I could see the
> next iteration of the template() option to be an escaped version,
> where you can specify what your escape character should be and which
> characters it should apply to.  Something like:
> 
>     destination{ file("/tmp/blah" template( "$MSG" escape("\")
>         to-escape("'\"\\") ) ); };

That seems like overkill.  You need an external program to catch the
data/SQL statements anyway and insert the data/run the SQL statements.
Why not output the data as data, and have the external program deal
with generating your SQL statements while escaping any characters you
need escaped?

- Morty