Fwd: How to 'print a table' in the middle of a plpgsql function

You can use RAISE INFO instead (it doesn't print the stack)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plpgsql-errors-and-messages.html

There is also a pgAdmin Debugger
http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/debugger.html

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>wrote:

> On 1/29/2011 12:59 AM, Leon Starr wrote:
>
>> I am deep into debugging some pretty extensive plpgsql and it would be
>> nice sometimes if I could somehow output the content of a table to the psql
>> console at a particular point in a function.
>>
>> For example, I am executing a select that is not returning the expected
>> row. So I am wondering, what exactly was in the table at the time the query
>> was performed.
>>
>> Of course, I could just write a loop prior to my query with a bunch of
>> raise notice statements, but I'll get a stack trace for each one. So that
>> won't be pretty.
>>
>> Suggestions? Thx.
>>
> Raise notice is PLPGSQL equivalent of DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE.
>
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