On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 at 01:08, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > I don't want to add 4 bytes to struct pg_conn for tracing support. I'm > tempted to make the new struct member a plain 'char' to reduce overhead > for a feature that almost nobody is going to use. According to pahole > we have a 3 bytes hole in that position of the struct, so if we make it > a 1- or 2-byte member, there's no storage overhead whatsoever.
Sounds fine to me. > Also, why not have pqTraceOutputMessage() responsible for resetting the > byte after printing the message? It seems to cause less undesirable > detritus. Yeah, that's indeed much nicer. > I propose something like the attached, but it's as yet untested. What > do you think? Looks good, but I haven't tested it yet either.