[development] watchdog() does not always work - or am I missingsomething?

[Karoly Negyesi]

What is the issue link you filed for this bug then on drupal.org? :)

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dave Cohen <drupal at dave-cohen.com> wrote:
> Good call Frédéric.  I just found messages in my /var/log/messages.log...
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> query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES(1, &#039;php&#039;, &#039;&lt;em&gt;Data too long for column &amp;amp;#039;referer&amp;amp;#039; at row 1
>
> I recently added sql_mode=STRICT_ALL_TABLES to my.cnf, in order to catch issues like this in my own modules.  And that's the setting that tells mysql to fail rather than truncate the long values.
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> -Dave
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> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 23:16:02 Frédéric G. MARAND wrote:
>> I've seen a similar case, where watchdog wouldn't work because the referer
>> field was too long and the insert request in dblog failed almost silently
>> instead of truncating that field (innodb engine, not checked with myisam
>> engine): the request wasn't logged and the failure of that request wasn't
>> stored either, IIRC for the same reason. Had to see it in a debugger to
>> understand what was going on. You might want to try a debugger too.
>>
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