On Oct 17, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I had an itch to scratch and now there is an experimental branch  
> that enables logging to a database:
>
>  http://github.com/janl/couchdb/commits/log-to-db
>
> Check out the test case on how it is supposed to work:
>
> http://github.com/janl/couchdb/blob/5cbfbeaddea2152e35b88cae515152f78d6b7544/share/www/script/test/log_database.js
>
> You just create a `database = dbname` entry in your configuration  
> under the `[log]` section and CouchDB will start to write log  
> entries to the specified database.
>
> Depending on the log level this means that each single request to  
> CouchDB triggers multiple writes to the log database. The logger,  
> for now, defaults to delayed_commits. A future improvement, could be  
> using the `batch=ok` module.
>
> I just wanted to throw this out here inspired by Chris' "releasing  
> things before I go to sleep for the night".
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Cheers
> Jan
> --
>

That patch should be restructured to store dbname in the server state.  
While we're at it changing config updates to avoid a server restart  
might be good too. This is similar to the uuid server restart bug that  
we fixed not too long ago. I'll take a crack after dinner.

Paul Davis