| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: errbacktrace |
| Date: | 2019-07-22 19:37:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20190722193747.GA29532@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2019-Jul-22, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2019-07-09 11:43, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > After further research I'm thinking about dropping the libunwind
> > support. The backtrace()/backtrace_symbols() API is more widely
> > available: darwin, freebsd, linux, netbsd, openbsd (via port), solaris,
> > and of course it's built-in, whereas libunwind is only available for
> > linux, freebsd, hpux, solaris, and requires an external dependency.
>
> Here is an updated patch without the libunwind support, some minor
> cleanups, documentation, and automatic back traces from assertion failures.
The only possibly complaint I see is that the backtrace support in
ExceptionalCondition does not work for Windows eventlog/console ... but
that seems moot since Windows does not have backtrace support anyway.
+1 to get this patch in at this stage; we can further refine (esp. add
Windows support) later, if need be.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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