pg_trace Enable tracing a PostgreSQL connection &reftitle.description; boolpg_trace stringfilename stringmode"w" PgSql\Connectionnullconnection&null; inttrace_mode0 pg_trace enables tracing of the PostgreSQL frontend/backend communication to a file. To fully understand the results, one needs to be familiar with the internals of PostgreSQL communication protocol. For those who are not, it can still be useful for tracing errors in queries sent to the server, you could do for example grep '^To backend' trace.log and see what queries actually were sent to the PostgreSQL server. For more information, refer to the PostgreSQL Documentation. &reftitle.parameters; filename The full path and file name of the file in which to write the trace log. Same as in fopen. mode An optional file access mode, same as for fopen. connection &pgsql.parameter.connection-with-nullable-default; trace_mode An optional trace mode with the following constants PGSQL_TRACE_SUPPRESS_TIMESTAMPS and PGSQL_TRACE_REGRESS_MODE &reftitle.returnvalues; &return.success; &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 8.3.0 trace_mode has been added. &pgsql.changelog.connection-object; 8.0.0 connection is now nullable. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.seealso; fopen pg_untrace