Re: PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

Alvaro,

I agree, a protocol seems to generally be the best option.

-Jonah

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:40:18PM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
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>>>Denis Lussier <denisl@enterprisedb.com> writes:
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>>>>I got to thinking it'd be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive
>>>>debugger for pl/pgsql.
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>>>That's been kicked around before, although I don't think anyone wants to
>>>tie it to pgAdmin specifically.  Check the archives...
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>>I didn't find anything relevant after a quick search, but if memory 
>>serves, one of the objections to PgAdmin was that it was windows only.  
>>This of course is no longer true as of PgAdmin III 1.0.  It now support 
>>Win32, Linux and FreeBSD.  So perhaps that objection is no longer valid.
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>I think the point is that we will have to make some modifications to
>PL/pgSQL, so why not make sure we write something that any tool can use?
>Say, a well-defined BE/FE protocol extension.
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