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psycopg connection context manager drops X-Ray tracing wrapper, so cursor execute calls are not traced #490

Description

@spockNinja

I am seeing a gap in the psycopg integration for aws-xray-sdk.

When patching psycopg succeeds, psycopg.connect() returns an XRayTracedConn proxy as expected. However, if the connection is used as a context manager with with conn as c:, the object returned from enter is the raw psycopg Connection, not the X-Ray wrapper. As a result, c.cursor(...) returns a raw psycopg Cursor, and execute() calls do not produce X-Ray subsegments.

Observed behavior

patch(("psycopg",), raise_errors=True) succeeds
psycopg.connect() returns aws_xray_sdk.ext.dbapi2.XRayTracedConn
entering the connection context manager unwraps the proxy
cursor() on that entered object returns psycopg.Cursor
execute() on the cursor is not traced
if I create an explicit subsegment manually, that subsegment appears in X-Ray, which confirms the request has a valid segment and the DB code path is running

Expected behavior

The psycopg X-Ray wrapper should preserve tracing across the connection context manager
with conn as c: should still return a wrapped connection, or otherwise ensure cursors created from the entered object are still traced
execute() should generate the native DB subsegment without needing manual instrumentation

Reproduction

Install aws-xray-sdk 2.15.0
Install psycopg 3.3.4 and psycopg-pool 3.2.7
Call patch(("psycopg",), raise_errors=True)
Call psycopg.connect(...)
Use the connection in a with block
Create a cursor and execute a query
Observe that the cursor is raw psycopg.Cursor and no DB subsegment is emitted

Environment details

aws-xray-sdk 2.15.0
psycopg 3.3.4
psycopg-pool 3.2.7
Python 3.12
Running in AWS Lambda

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