| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Improve Assert output |
| Date: | 2019-08-14 20:36:40 |
| Message-ID: | 1430.1565815000@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> This kind of output is usually not helpful:
> TRAP: BadArgument("((context) != ((void *)0) && (((((const
> Node*)((context)))->type) == T_AllocSetContext) || ((((const
> Node*)((context)))->type) == T_SlabContext) || ((((const
> Node*)((context)))->type) == T_GenerationContext)))", File:
> "../../../../src/include/utils/memutils.h", Line: 129)
> What we probably want is something like:
> TRAP: BadArgument("MemoryContextIsValid(context)", File:
> "../../../../src/include/utils/memutils.h", Line: 129)
+1, that would be a big improvement. The other thing that this
is fixing is that the existing output for Assert et al shows
the *inverted* condition, which I for one always found confusing.
I didn't try to test the patch, but it passes eyeball examination.
regards, tom lane
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