On Jul 13, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
The performance and error recovery implications are unfavorable.
Just how badly do you need this, and for what?

Mainly for debugging.  The situation is such that there is a lot of
functions and very high load. The functions have embedded "debug elogs" and the intention is to call them only if the function was called in a
particular context.

I can't really see that as sufficiently widely useful to justify
inserting such a mechanism.

I suspect also that you are defining the problem the wrong way --- this
user doesn't want a generic fmgr call stack, he wants a plpgsql stack.
Which is something the plpgsql debugger could be taught to do, if it
doesn't already, thus avoiding the overhead the 99.9% of the time that
you don't need it.

Actually, this could conceivably be called from other languages, such as plPerl.

But it sounds like this can be done via an add-on, so no need to add it directly to the backend.
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