Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, hold on a minute.  I said that was an alternative to look at,
>> not that it was necessarily better.  Can you define in words of one
>> syllable which queries will be exposed this way?  I don't believe
>> it's "all of them".

> Well, if you call a pl function, it is going to show you the current SPI
> function running rather than the user query.  Because the comment next
> to the function says:

>        *  Expose the current query to the user (useful in stored procedures)

> I assume the portal string is better for stored procedures then
> debug_query_string for current_query().

Uh, no, not necessarily.  As an example, if the thing were really
returning the most closely nested query (I'm not sure it is) then
a plpgsql function trying to inspect the value of current_query()
would always get back the result "SELECT current_query()".  Not
too helpful, eh?  So we actually do have to think a little bit
about exactly *which* query we want to return and whether the
ActivePortal can be counted on to be that one.

The good thing about using debug_query_string is that "the current
client query" is well-defined and easy to explain.  I'm worried
whether using ActivePortal isn't likely to result in a rather
implementation-dependent behavior that changes from release to release.

Or maybe it really is the Right Thing ... but I'm not feeling
confident of that.

                        regards, tom lane

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