[postgres] Fix unicode decode error from Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server #18938
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What does this PR do?
This PR fixes the bug encountered in Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server in the
backend_type
column ofpg_stat_activity
.There is a bug on Microsoft's side where they send a non valid utf-8 string in that column, leading to decoding errors when trying to fetch this column.
The workaround is to query that same column with
::bytea
suffix to convert the field into bytes then parsingbackend_type
manually. The bug still exists but now we just handle those error cases instead of failing on the whole query.Motivation
https://datadoghq.atlassian.net/browse/SDBM-1169
https://datadoghq.atlassian.net/browse/SDBM-1197
#incident-31599
A couple of customers where seeing errors utilizing DBM with Azure PG Flexible Server when agent tries to query
backend_type
frompg_stat_activity
. We previously issued a fix but had to revert due to many warnings being logged from the agent.Review checklist (to be filled by reviewers)
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label if the PR doesn't need to be tested during QA.backport/<branch-name>
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