Re: libpq debug log

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

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "iwata.aya@fujitsu.com" <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com>, "tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com" <tsunakawa.takay@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: 2021-03-10T22:25:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2021-Mar-10, Tom Lane wrote:

> After studying this further, I think we should apply the attached
> patch to remove that responsibility from pqParseInput3's subroutines.
> This will allow a single trace call near the bottom of pqParseInput3
> to handle all cases that that function processes.

Works for me.

> BTW, while looking at this I concluded that getParamDescriptions
> is actually buggy: if it's given a malformed message that seems
> to need more data than the message length specifies, it just
> returns EOF, resulting in an infinite loop.  This function apparently
> got missed while converting the logic from v2 (where that was the
> right thing) to v3 (where it ain't).  So that bit needs to be
> back-patched.

Ah, that makes sense.

> I'm tempted to back-patch the whole thing though.

+0.5 on that.  I think we may be happy that all branches are alike
(though it doesn't look like this will cause any subtle bugs -- breakage
will be fairly obvious).

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