debugging PostgreSQL

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:16:34AM +0100, gevik@xs4all.nl wrote:

Could someone be so kind to give me some pointers about how
to debug pg. I would like to know which debugger you use under windows and
linux

GDB. The mechanism is simple: start a connection, and in a terminal
window get the backend's PID with ps(1), then call gdb -p <pid>.

I assume this would also work with other debuggers or GDB frontends, but
I haven't tried.

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