Re: libpq debug log

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: "alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org" <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: "tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com" <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Cc: 'Tom Lane' <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "iwata.aya@fujitsu.com" <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com>, "k.jamison@fujitsu.com" <k.jamison@fujitsu.com>, 'Kyotaro Horiguchi' <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-05T13:41:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2021-Mar-05, tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com wrote:

> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> > But I think passing the message start address explicitly might be
> > better than having it understand the buffering behavior in enough
> > detail to know where to find the message.  Part of the point here
> > (IMO) is to decouple the tracing logic from the core libpq logic, in
> > hopes of not having common-mode bugs.
> 
> Ouch, you're perfectly right.  Then let's make the signature:
> 
>     void pqLogMessage(PGconn *conn, const char *message, bool toServer);

Yeah, looks good!  I agree that going this route will result in more
trustworthy trace output.

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Álvaro Herrera                            39°49'30"S 73°17'W



Commits

  1. Rename PQtraceSetFlags() to PQsetTraceFlags().

  2. Suppress length of Notice/Error msgs in PQtrace regress mode

  3. Strip file names reported in error messages on Windows, too.

  4. Fix setvbuf()-induced crash in libpq_pipeline

  5. libpq_pipeline: Must strdup(optarg) to avoid crash

  6. Remove setvbuf() call from PQtrace()

  7. Initialize conn->Pfdebug to NULL when creating a connection

  8. Disable force_parallel_mode in libpq_pipeline

  9. libpq_pipeline: add PQtrace() support and tests

  10. Improve PQtrace() output format

  11. Re-simplify management of inStart in pqParseInput3's subroutines.