Add a note pointing out that you can't log to syslog without tweaking

the syslog configuration file (at least not on most known Unixen).
I dunno why we hadn't had that info in the docs all along ...
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.150 2007/10/09 18:14:01 neilc Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.151 2007/10/20 04:00:38 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
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<varname>logging_collector</varname> must be enabled to generate
CSV-format log output.
</para>
<note>
<para>
On most Unix systems, you will need to alter the configuration of
your system's <application>syslog</application> daemon in order
to make use of the <systemitem>syslog</systemitem> option for
<varname>log_destination</>. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
can log to <application>syslog</application> facilities
<literal>LOCAL0</> through <literal>LOCAL7</> (see <xref
linkend="guc-syslog-facility">), but the default
<application>syslog</application> configuration on most platforms
will discard all such messages. You will need to add something like
<programlisting>
local0.* /var/log/postgresql
</programlisting>
to the <application>syslog</application> daemon's configuration file
to make it work.
</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>