I’ve always felt this was partly database vendors fault for not having tooling that integrates well. I think there is some theoretical world where pgTAP and other database specific test harnesses work fairly seamlessly with language runtimes via some well designed SDK. Tracing would need to walk into the db call stack from the application code.

Clearly this is harder to get right than expected since there aren’t many places doing stuff like that, that I’m aware of at least. Maybe if some of these database vendors built out better API’s for things like that with the expectation other language runtimes would be calling them the situation would be better. But it seems a lot of the old school db world is perfectly happy to build their products as if they were a black box from the application’s perspective