Re: Printing bitmap objects in the debugger

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> > While working on partition-wise join, I had to examine Relids objects
>> > many times. Printing the Bitmapset::words[] in binary format and then
>> > inferring the relids takes time and is error prone.
>>
>> FWIW, I generally rely on pprint() to look at planner data structures
>> from the debugger.
>
> Also:
> http://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/making-debugging-with-gdb-a-bit-easier
> This may not address the issue directly, but it's probably very helpful.

Thanks for the reference. I think this is something similar to what
Pavan suggested in the mail thread.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat
EnterpriseDB Corporation
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