From: "Takayuki Tsunakawa" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>How about mimicing postgres with a script that starts gdb to
run
> postgres? That is, rename the original postgres module to
> postgres.org and create a shell script named postgres like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> gdb postgres $*
Sorry, this should be postgres.org $*.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Takayuki Tsunakawa" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: "Gregory Stark" <stark@enterprisedb.com>; "PostgreSQL Hackers"
<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Question about debugging bootstrapping and
catalog entries
> Hello, Mr. Stark
>
>> Are there any tricks people have for debugging bootstrapping
> processing? I
>> just need to know what index it's trying to build here and that
> should be
>> enough to point me in the right direction:
>
> As Mr. Lane says, it would be best to be able to make postgres sleep
> for an arbitrary time. The direction may be either a command line
> option or an environment variable (like BOOTSTRAP_SLEEP) or both.
iI
> think the env variable is easy to handle n this case.
>
> How about mimicing postgres with a script that starts gdb to run
> postgres? That is, rename the original postgres module to
> postgres.org and create a shell script named postgres like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> gdb postgres $*
>
> Tell me if it works.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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