Re: libpq debug log

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: "Jamison, Kirk" <k.jamison@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Iwata, Aya" <iwata.aya@jp.fujitsu.com>, "Nagaura, Ryohei" <nagaura.ryohei@jp.fujitsu.com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion@pivotal.io>, Jim Doty <jdoty@pivotal.io>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "nagata@sraoss.co.jp" <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Date: 2019-02-20T03:55:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 10:06 PM Jamison, Kirk <k.jamison@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> It sounds more logical to me if there is a parameter that switches on/off the logging
> similar to other postgres logs. I suggest trace_log as the parameter name.

I'm not really sure that I like the design of this patch in any way.
But leaving that aside, trace_log seems like a poor choice of name,
because it's got two words telling you what kind of thing we are doing
(tracing, logging) and zero words describing the nature of the thing
being traced or logged (the wire protocol communication with the
client).  A tracing facility for the planner, or the executor, or any
other part of the system would have an equally good claim on the same
name.  That can't be right.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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.