[syslog-ng] Encoding provlem when writing to postgres

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 08:46 +0200, ml at bortal.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> where can i get syslog-ng 3.0?
> 
> I cant find it on
> http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/

I've just sent out an announcement that it's available as a git
repository.

No formal releases have been made yet.

> 
> Thanks,
> Mario
> 
> 
> Am 15.10.2008 um  Uhr haben Sie geschrieben:
> > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:53 +0200, ml at bortal.de wrote:
> > > Hello List,
> > >
> > > How can i fix this? I am running postgresql-8.1 with Debian 4.0.
> >
> > Probably the syslog client sends non-utf8 characters in its message.
> > syslog-ng 2.0 and 2.1 do not really care about the message contents.
> >
> > 3.0 has support for various encodings and utf8 validation like this:
> >
> > This assumes that the input is latin1:
> >
> > source s_net { udp(encoding("iso-8859-1")); };
> >
> > And this one enforces valid utf8 messages
> >
> > source s_net { udp(flags(validate-utf8)); };
> >
> > I was planning to add another flag, but this is not yet implemented:
> >
> > source s_net { udp(flags(force-utf8)); };
> >
> > Which would enforce valid utf8 sequences by changing the input.
> >
> > As an alternative don't use utf8 as the character encoding of your
> > database, use latin1, that'll permit any kind of data in the database.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Bazsi