[syslog-ng] abandon libdbi and write a new sql driver?

Martin Holste mcholste at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 03:53:11 CET 2011


> I know I've also heard many recommendations of piping out to a perl script
> to do the inserts. A perl script should never do its job faster than C code.
>

Certainly never faster, but the degree to which it is slower should be
weighed against the time commitment (and resultant opportunity cost)
of creating a whole new library.  That said, I'm all for a new
library.  Something that could speak HandlerSocket would be a huge
win.


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