Re: Printing bitmap objects in the debugger

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.

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