Re: Printing backtrace of postgres processes

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Printing backtrace of postgres processes
Date: 2021-05-06 19:55:20
Message-ID: 20210506195520.vqd4nss5j64upv5t@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2021-05-06 15:22:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > we allow generating backtraces in all kind of places, including
> > e.g. some inside critical sections via backtrace_functions.
>
> If there's an elog call inside a critical section, that seems
> like a problem already. Are you sure that there are any such?

There's several, yes. In xlog.c there's quite a few that are gated by
wal_debug being enabled. But also a few without that,
e.g. XLogFileInit() logging
elog(DEBUG1, "creating and filling new WAL file");
and XLogFileInit() can be called within a critical section.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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