Re: Reporting query on crash even if completed

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Reporting query on crash even if completed
Date: 2017-09-18 17:12:40
Message-ID: 1085.1505754760@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Now, for pg_stat_activity part of the argument why this wouldn't be
>> confusing was that you could also see the "state" field. Maybe we
>> should try to shoehorn equivalent info into the crash log entry?

> Yeah, I think so. Really, I think this is an inadvertency, and thus a
> bug. But instead of just not showing the query when the backend is
> idle, I'd change the display for that case to:

> DETAIL: Failed process was idle; last query was: %s

WFM.

> Or something like that. I guess we'd need another case for a backend
> that crashed without ever running a query.

We already print nothing in that case, which seems fine.

regards, tom lane

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