Re: Debugger

Peter Eisentraut schrieb:
> Pedro Belmino wrote:
>   
>> I am with a problem. When I am using debugger, breakpoints that they
>> are inside of main function (stop the execution in the marked point)
>> but when breakpoint is marked in another archive (index.c for
>> example) breakpoint does not function (the execution in the point
>> does not stop), because this happens?
>>     
>
> There is a fork() happen between the main function and what you are 
> probably looking for break at.  You need to attach to the session 
> process after it forks, not to the main postmaster process.
>
>   
If you just want a single backend, and entering sql commands to the
"backend>" prompt is enough for you, you should consider using the
command line argument --single DATABASE for debugging.

see also:

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/app-postgres.html

-Hannes