Re: A modest proposal: let's add PID to assertion failure messages

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal: let's add PID to assertion failure messages
Date: 2020-10-05 00:58:24
Message-ID: 20201005005824.GG1464@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:20:01AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:08 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> In these days when we run almost all test cases in parallel, it's
>> frequently not that easy to tie a "TRAP: ..." message in the log
>> to nearby log messages. (The postmaster's subsequent complaint
>> often helps, but it could be some distance away in the log; and
>> good luck untangling things if more than one Assert failure happens
>> concurrently.) We could add a simple bread crumb trail by
>> including the process's PID in such messages. Any objections?
>
> +1

+1. (log_line_prefix includes %p in its default configuration for the
TAP tests).
--
Michael

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