> A popular sentiment is that binary logs are evil and the only way to properly log information is by using plain text. > I don’t particularly care about the a

> A popular sentiment is that binary logs are evil and the only way to properly log information is by using plain text. > I don’t particularly care about the argument between plain text versus binary logs. However, if your reasoning for not wanting to use binary logs is because they are opaque and can be corrupted then you should take a close look at your log rotation or archival process. If you are archiving logs by first compressing them using something like gzip, you no longer have plain text log files. I found quite a few people disliked binary log files due to concerns around their portability. Specifically when they depend on a platform-specific utility to read them. If they are compressed using a standard algorithm, it alleviates concerns about portability.