Re: Installing debugger?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> The current instructions at www.pgadmin.org on how to install the
> PL/pgSQL debugger read:
>
> "In order to use the debugger, a plugin is required on your server. This
> is included by default with EnterpriseDB, and is available for download
> on pgFoundry. It is installed as a contrib module with the Windows
> distribution of PostgreSQL 8.3 and above."
>
> However, the only download available from pgFoundry dates back to
> PostgreSQL 8.2, implying that it may not be compatible with 8.4.
> Further, there are no PGXS installation instructions for users who did
> not install from source.
>
> So ... does the debugger even still work?

Yes, you just need to use a CVS checkout instead of the older tarball,
or get the binary bundled with any of the EDB installers. The only
changes have been for compatibility with newer versions of Postgres.

> And if it does, how do I
> install it on an RHEL system with 8.4.2 RPM installed?

You need a source tree, as noone ever got around to creating a PGXS build.

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