On 15.05.24 17:50, Tom Lane wrote:
We kind of already have something like this, for NLS. If you look for
pg_bindtextdomain(TEXTDOMAIN) and ereport_domain(), this information
already trickles into the vicinity of the error data. Maybe the same
thing could just be used for this, by wiring up the
Andres Freund writes:
> What portability issues do you forsee? We already look up the same symbol in
> all the shared libraries ("Pg_magic_func"), so we know that we can deal with
> duplicate function names. Are you thinking that somehow we'd end up with
> symbol interposition or something?
No, i
Hi,
On 2024-05-15 13:45:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> There is one advantage over my suggestion of changing PG_MODULE_MAGIC:
> if we tell people to write
>
>PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
>#undef TEXTDOMAIN
>#define TEXTDOMAIN PG_TEXTDOMAIN("hstore")
>
> then that's 100% backwards compatible and the
On 05/15/24 13:45, Tom Lane wrote:
> if we tell people to write
>
>PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
>#undef TEXTDOMAIN
>#define TEXTDOMAIN PG_TEXTDOMAIN("hstore")
>
> then that's 100% backwards compatible and they don't need any
> version-testing ifdef's.
OT for this thread, but related: supposing o
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2024-05-15 12:54:45 -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
>> But I'd bet, within the fraction of the population that does use it,
>> it is already a short string that looks a whole lot like the name
>> of the extension. So maybe enhancing the documentation and making it
>> easy to
Hi,
On 2024-05-15 12:54:45 -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 05/15/24 11:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Hmm, cute idea, but it'd only help for extensions that are
> > NLS-enabled. Which I bet is a tiny fraction of the population.
> > So far as I can find, we don't even document how to set up
> > TEXTDOMA
On 05/15/24 11:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hmm, cute idea, but it'd only help for extensions that are
> NLS-enabled. Which I bet is a tiny fraction of the population.
> So far as I can find, we don't even document how to set up
> TEXTDOMAIN for an extension --- you have to cargo-cult the
But I'd bet, w
Peter Eisentraut writes:
> On 14.05.24 01:11, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The mechanism that Andres describes for sourcing the name seems a bit
>> overcomplex though. Why not just allow/require each extension to
>> specify its name as a constant string? We could force the matter by
>> redefining PG_MODUL
On 14.05.24 01:11, Tom Lane wrote:
The mechanism that Andres describes for sourcing the name seems a bit
overcomplex though. Why not just allow/require each extension to
specify its name as a constant string? We could force the matter by
redefining PG_MODULE_MAGIC as taking an argument:
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 07:11:53PM GMT, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund writes:
> > On 2024-05-13 19:25:11 -0300, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> >> Hmmm, depending on the extension it can extensively call/use postgres code
> >> so would be nice if we can differentiate if the code is called from
Hi,
On 2024-05-13 19:11:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The mechanism that Andres describes for sourcing the name seems a bit
> overcomplex though. Why not just allow/require each extension to
> specify its name as a constant string? We could force the matter by
> redefining PG_MODULE_MAGIC as takin
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2024-05-13 19:25:11 -0300, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
>> Hmmm, depending on the extension it can extensively call/use postgres code
>> so would be nice if we can differentiate if the code is called from
>> Postgres itself or from an extension.
> I think that's not r
Hi,
On 2024-05-13 19:25:11 -0300, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM Andres Freund wrote:
> > It's not entirely trivial to provide errfinish() with a parameter
> indicating
> > the extension, but it's doable:
> >
> > 1) Have PG_MODULE_MAGIC also define a new variable
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM Andres Freund wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It can be very useful to look at the log messages emitted by a larger
number
> of postgres instances to see if anything unusual is happening. E.g.
checking
> whether there are an increased number of internal, IO, corruption errors
(a
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