Suppressing elog.c context messages (was Re: Wait free LW_SHARED acquisition) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Suppressing elog.c context messages (was Re: Wait free LW_SHARED acquisition)
Date
Msg-id 20141219160604.GG5023@alap3.anarazel.de
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Responses Re: Suppressing elog.c context messages (was Re: Wait free LW_SHARED acquisition)  (Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

When debugging lwlock issues I found PRINT_LWDEBUG/LOG_LWDEBUG rather
painful to use because of the amount of elog contexts/statements
emitted. Given the number of lwlock acquirations that's just not doable.

To solve that during development I've solved that by basically
replacing:   if (Trace_lwlocks)          elog(LOG, "%s(%s %d): %s", where, name, index, msg);

with something like
   if (Trace_lwlocks)   {       ErrorContextCallback *old_error_context_stack;
...       old_error_context_stack = error_context_stack;       error_context_stack = NULL;       ereport(LOG,
  (errhidestmt(true),               errmsg("%s(%s %d): %s", where, T_NAME(lock),
 
T_ID(lock), msg)));

I think it'd generally be useful to have something like errhidecontext()
akin to errhidestatement() to avoid things like the above.

The usecases wher eI see this as being useful is high volume debug
logging, not normal messages...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

--Andres Freund                       http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training &
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