Re: libpq debug log

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

From: "'alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org'" <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>, 'Kyotaro Horiguchi' <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, "k.jamison@fujitsu.com" <k.jamison@fujitsu.com>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-31T22:09:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 2021-Mar-31, Tom Lane wrote:

> I wrote:
> > That is weird - only test 4 (of 8) runs at all, the rest seem to
> > fail to connect.  What's different about pipelined_insert?
> 
> Oh ... there's a pretty obvious theory.  pipelined_insert is
> the only one that is not asked to write a trace file.
> So for some reason, opening the trace file fails.
> (I wonder why we don't see an error message for this though.)

.. oh, I think we forgot to set conn->Pfdebug = NULL when creating the
connection.  So when we do PQtrace(), the first thing it does is
PQuntrace(), and then that tries to do fflush(conn->Pfdebug) ---> crash.
So this should fix it.

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Álvaro Herrera       Valdivia, Chile
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       more or less, right?
<crab> i.e., "deadly poison"

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.