Add support for buffering is scripted logs

[Eran Kornblau]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nginx-devel [mailto:nginx-devel-bounces at nginx.org] On Behalf Of Maxim Dounin
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 7:55 PM
> To: nginx-devel at nginx.org
> Subject: Re: Add support for buffering is scripted logs
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:01:10PM +0000, Eran Kornblau wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Maxim, comments inline.
> > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 10:36:19AM +0000, Eran Kornblau wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just a quick note: for me, the whole feature looks questionable, and the implementation is far from being in a commitable state.
> > > 
> > Why questionable? you would probably agree that variables in the 
> > access log name can be useful in some cases, and you'd probably also 
> > agree that log compression is good (it saves a lot of IO for a negligible amount of CPU - we use it in all nginx servers we have). So why not allow both?
> 
> Obviously enough, every feature you can think of is useful in some cases.  The question is code complexity and other maintanance expenses compared to the usefulness of the particular feature.
> 
Ok, so is that a final 'no' for this whole feature, or is there is anything else I can do to get this feature in?

Thanks

Eran