single table for all vhosts?

Hiya.

Given the apparant lack of list archives for this list, I'm afraid that
as a new user I may be repeating old questions, but anyway ...

Should I expect problems if I set every virtualhost to record log
entries to the same table, rather than create a new table for each
virtualhost?  And is there a way to set that table name *once* rather
than include a "LogSQLTransferLogTable access_log" in every vhost?

I currently have several hundred virtualhosts (and expect it to grow to
several thousand shortly), and this is my first foray into mod_log_sql.
My current (home-grown) control panel software will of course need to
have its functionality extended to support whatever structure I use, and
the major thing I'm thinking will be easier to handle in a single-table
environment is aging and expiry.  I should be able to get all the speed
I need with an index on (virtual_host, time_stamp), so I'm wondering
what the down side is to going this route.

Cancellations would shift from "DROP TABLE www_www_example_com" to
"DELETE FROM access_log WHERE virtual_host='www.example.com'".

Thoughts?

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  Paul Chvostek                                             <[email protected]>
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