Re: Has anyone tried out the PL/pgSQL debugger?

Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> 1) In-context debugging: you set a breakpoint on a function (from within a
>> tool like pgAdmin) and then invoke that function from some other client
>> application
> 
> I mean method 1. I hadn't success with pgAdmin. Breakpoints was ignored.

That normally means the debugger plugin hasn't been correctly installed.

From the readme:

- Edit your postgresql.conf file, and modify the
shared_preload_libraries config option to look like:
 shared_preload_libraries = '$libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.so'
 (on some platforms the file extension may differ - for example, on
Windows it will be .dll not .so).

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The majority of problems we've encountered with the plugin are caused by
failing to add (or incorrectly adding) the debugger plugin library to
the shared_preload_libraries configuration directive in postgresql.conf
(following which, the server *must* be restarted). This will prevent
global breakpoints working on all platforms, and on some (notably
Windows) may prevent the pldbgapi.sql script from executing correctly.

Regards, Dave.