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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:18:26+00:00

I’m trying to save log messages to a central database. In order to do

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I’m trying to save log messages to a central database. In order to do this, I configured the following Appender in log4j’s xml configuration:

<appender name="DB" class="org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender">
            <param name="URL" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost/logging_test" />
            <param name="user" value="test_user" />
            <param name="password" value="test_password" />
            <param name="sql" value="INSERT INTO log_messages ( log_level, message, log_date ) VALUES ( '%p', '%m', '%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}' )" />
</appender>

This works fine, except some of the messages contain ‘, and then the appender fails.

Is there an easy way to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have a look at this non official Log4J JDBCAppender which fixes this issue and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Quoting its features in comparision to org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender:

    • Log to (relational) database
    • Flexible connection handling (does not yet support DataSource)
    • Flexible sql commands to execute actual logging
    • Prepared Statements and Stored Procedures (J2SDK 1.4+) supported
    • Enables logging of messages with special characters such as ‘ (single
      quote) and , (comma)
    • Flexible table and column structure
    • Flexible id generation
    • Multiple PatternLayout applications allowed; in one or more
      columns
    • Supports J2SDK 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5
    • Supports Log4j 1.2.9 and current development

    Or, and you should seriously consider this option, switch from log4j to its successor, logback (this is where things happen) which has a DBAppender that uses PreparedStatement (see the sources), that can use a JNDI datasource, connection pooling (this is a big plus), etc. For more information about this appender, refer to the online manual http://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#DBAppender

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