Hello, In the process of implementing my own version of sysdate, i was trying to use the fmgr_hook. I had a look at the sepgsql contrib module and tried to do the same by modifying auto_explain just to test using fmgr_hook. My code changes are: static needs_fmgr_hook_type prev_needs_fmgr_hook = NULL; static fmgr_hook_type prev_fmgr_hook = NULL; static bool custom_needs_fmgr_hook(Oid functionId); static void custom_fmgr_hook(FmgrHookEventType event,FmgrInfo *flinfo, Datum *private); in PG_init(void) prev_needs_fmgr_hook = needs_fmgr_hook; needs_fmgr_hook = custom_needs_fmgr_hook; prev_fmgr_hook = fmgr_hook; fmgr_hook = custom_fmgr_hook; in _PG_fini(void) needs_fmgr_hook=prev_needs_fmgr_hook; fmgr_hook=prev_fmgr_hook; static bool custom_needs_fmgr_hook(Oid functionId) { return true; } void custom_fmgr_hook(FmgrHookEventType event,FmgrInfo *flinfo, Datum *private) { if(flinfo->fn_extra == NULL) { TimestampTz current_timestamp = GetCurrentTimestamp(); flinfo->fn_extra = palloc(sizeof(TimestampTz)); flinfo->fn_extra = (void*) current_timestamp; } } To debug i have a breakpoint inside custom_fmgr_hook. Debugging: 1. Start postgres 2. Start psql connecting to postgres 3. Attach gdb to process spawned off by postmaster representing psql session. 4. execute select * from now(); Problem: The breakpoint seems to get skipped. Just to be sure i put a breakpoint in explain_ExecutorStart and i could debug that function. So i am attaching gdb to correct process. What am i doing wrong? Thank you, Sameer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general