Re: Patch proposal: New hooks in the connection path

Hi Bharath,

On 7/14/22 11:43 AM, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 5:54 PM Bharath Rupireddy
> <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looking at v2-0003 patch and emit_log_hook, how about we filter out
>> for those connectivity errors either based on error codes and if they
>> aren't unique, perhaps passing special flags to ereport API indicating
>> that it's a connectivity error and in the emit_log_hook we can look
>> for those connectivity error codes or flags to collect the stats about
>> the failure connections (with MyProcPort being present in
>> emit_log_hook)? This way, we don't need a new hook. Thoughts?
> Bertrand and Other Hackers, above comment may have been lost in the
> wild - any thoughts on it?

Thanks for your feedback!

I can see 2 issues with that approach:

- We’ll not be able to track the “startup timeout case” (well, we may 
not be able to track it anyway depending of what next to [1] will be) as 
it does not emit any log messages.
- We’ll depend of the log_min_messages value (means 
edata->output_to_server needs to be true for the emit_log_hook to be 
triggered).

[1]: 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a1558d12-c1c4-0fe5-f8a5-2b6c2294e55f%40amazon.com

Regards,

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