On 2024-Apr-09, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 8:51 AM Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien.flaesch@xxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Is the PQtrace() API the only way to enable libpq client tracing? > > > > I thought about some environment variable of client configuration > > setting... > > That's generally the job of the client, or more specifically, the driver > providing the interface between your program and the libpq API. Unless you > are writing at the low level yourself, in which case, you would need to > have your program detect an env and call PQtrace() as needed. > > See for example > https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Pg#parse_trace_flag-and-parse_trace_flags Another approach might be to use Wireshark, which has a decoder for the Postgres FE/BE protocol. -- Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "Pido que me den el Nobel por razones humanitarias" (Nicanor Parra)
