Re: debugging tools inside postgres

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: HuangQi <huangqiyx(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: debugging tools inside postgres
Date: 2011-06-24 15:21:53
Message-ID: 26054.1308928913@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> (2011/06/24 15:35), HuangQi wrote:
>> I'm trying to debug a modification for the query planner. But I found it
>> seems the data structure of my planned query is incorrect. I was trying to
>> print out the data structure by use the "p" command in gdb which is quite
>> inconvenient and takes time. May I know is there any embedded function in
>> postgres to print out the node data structures, or any other plan related
>> data structures? Thanks.

> I think nodeToString() would help.

For interactive use in gdb, I generally do

call pprint(..node pointer..)

which prints to the postmaster log.

regards, tom lane

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