log4j JDBCAppender rotate table name

Question

I have successfully configured an application that uses log4j for it\'s logging to log into a MySQL database. (Using org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender).

I also have som

Answer 1

I figured out how to do this:

log4j.appender.SQ=org.apache.log4j.jdbc.JDBCAppender
log4j.appender.SQ.Driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
log4j.appender.SQ.URL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/logs
log4j.appender.SQ.sql=INSERT INTO accesslog_%d{yyyy_MM} (date, time, tz, ...

It appears you can just put date format strings into the SQL statement, and JDBCAppender will expand them and log into the coresponding table.

However, it will not create new tables at the start of the new month, so currently I have to manualy create the tables beforehand, which is far from ideal.