Re: How to 'print a table' in the middle of a plpgsql function

You can use RAISE INFO instead (it doesn't print the stack)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plpgsql-errors-and-messages.html

There is also a pgAdmin Debugger
http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/debugger.html

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Mladen Gogala <mladen.gogala@vmsinfo.com> wrote:

On 1/29/2011 12:59 AM, Leon Starr wrote:

I am deep into debugging some pretty extensive plpgsql and it would be nice sometimes if I could somehow output the content of a table to the psql console at a particular point in a function.

For example, I am executing a select that is not returning the expected row.  So I am wondering, what exactly was in the table at the time the query was performed.

Of course, I could just write a loop prior to my query with a bunch of raise notice statements, but I'll get a stack trace for each one.  So that won't be pretty.

Suggestions?  Thx.

Raise notice is PLPGSQL equivalent of DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE.

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