Re: backtrace_on_internal_error

Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
> Something else to note: I wrote the above code to check the error code;
> it doesn't check whether the original code write elog() or ereport().
> There are some internal errors that are written as ereport() now.
> Others might be changed from time to time; until now there would have
> been no external effect from this. I think it would be weird to
> introduce a difference between these forms now.

Yeah, that was bothering me too. IIRC, elog is already documented
as being *exactly equivalent* to ereport with a minimal set of
options. I don't think we should break that equivalence. So I
agree with driving this off the stated-or-imputed errcode rather
than which function is called.

> Do people want a way to distinguish ERROR/FATAL/PANIC?
> Or do people want a way to enable backtraces for elog(LOG)?

Personally I don't see a need for either.

regards, tom lane