Native MySQL support in syslog-ng

So, apparently I’ve been living under a rock.  One of the biggest criticisms I’ve had about syslog-ng for a long time is the terribly convoluted process to get logs into MySQL.  I was looking through the syslog-ng mailing list and saw someone asking for help with getting the script to work for piping logs into MySQL, and the response was something like “why don’t you just use the native support for interfacing with MySQL?”.  Now I’ll need to find something else to complain about.

I have yet to play with this interface, but I’m building a system now to test bed it with.