Re: Is *that* why debugging backend startup is so hard!?

Tom Lane writes:

> I just spent a rather frustrating hour trying to debug a backend startup
> failure --- and getting nowhere because I couldn't catch the failure in
> a debugger, or even step to where I thought it might be.  I've seen this
> sort of difficulty before, and always had to resort to expedients like
> putting in printf's.  But tonight I finally realized what the problem is.

Could that be contributing to the Heisenbug I decribed on Sunday in "Pid
file magically disappears"?


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