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-rw-r--r--src/backend/utils/error/elog.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
index 7c7927509b5..6e8e5aef4e0 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/error/elog.c
@@ -105,11 +105,12 @@ int Log_destination = LOG_DESTINATION_STDERR;
/*
* Max string length to send to syslog(). Note that this doesn't count the
* sequence-number prefix we add, and of course it doesn't count the prefix
- * added by syslog itself. On many implementations it seems that the hard
- * limit is approximately 2K bytes including both those prefixes.
+ * added by syslog itself. Solaris and sysklogd truncate the final message
+ * at 1024 bytes, so this value leaves 124 bytes for those prefixes. (Most
+ * other syslog implementations seem to have limits of 2KB or so.)
*/
#ifndef PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT
-#define PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT 1024
+#define PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT 900
#endif
static bool openlog_done = false;