Re: Fix debugging on EDB with latest pldebugger

Thanks, patch applied.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks to recent changes I made to the pldebugger server-side functions, the
> EDB-specific parts of pldebugger are now linked into the same
> plugin_debugger.so library as the PL/pgSQL parts. It used to produce a
> separate plugin_spl_debugger.so library, but that was inconvenient. For
> example if you had a call stack that contained both PL/pgSQL and EDB-SPL
> functions, you could not display both of them in the same debugger session.
>
> That's now been changed in pldebugger, but now pgAdmin refuses to debug SPL
> functions because it doesn't see plugin_spl_debugger.so in
> shared_preload_libraries line. Here's a patch that teaches pgAdmin that
> plugin_debugger.so now contains all that's needed or debugging SPL code.
>
> I'm actually not sure it's a good idea to require shared_preload_libraries
> to contain the library; much of the debugging functionality is quite usable
> without that. If you load the library in a single session, you can set local
> breakpoints and debug in that session, for example. But this patch doesn't
> change that.
>
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