Re: Support a wildcard in backtrace_functions

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>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <me(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Support a wildcard in backtrace_functions
Date: 2024-04-26 18:30:08
Message-ID: 20240426183008.62zf2pox5yyfweut@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2024-04-19 15:24:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I can't say that I care for "backtrace_on_internal_error".
> Re-reading that thread, I see I argued for having *no* GUC and
> just enabling that behavior all the time. I lost that fight,
> but it should have been clear that a GUC of this exact shape
> is a design dead end --- and that's what we're seeing now.

I don't think enabling backtraces without a way to disable them is a good idea
- security vulnerablilities in backtrace generation code are far from unheard
of and can make error handling a lot slower...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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