CHANGE-709 - Refactor logging infrastructure (continuation)

CHANGE-709 - Refactor logging infrastructure (continuation from earlier changes)
- fix chicken/egg problem with log initialization
- add explicit logging messages in more places
- relocate log-delete code to logwriter
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Sure, but there's no point mocking the db in this case, because the important tests are whether the db actually changes state. Hence the separate db-specific testing infrastructure.