On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com> wrote:
But all you need is some kind of "jcat" or whatever it will be called to dump the human-readable version out of the database to stdout. Then all your text tools will do exactly as good as with your plain text logfile.
Yes, that solves interoperability with text tools. But then you have the other case that has been pointed already: what if the binary log gets corrupted and jcat can't read it? Text logs allow the human behind the keyboard some recourse left: guess what's wrong with the log, try to make something of it regardless of corruption. Binary logs don't, unless you code very sophisticated tools. In essence, I believe the binary part is totally unnecessary and risk-prone. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org