On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ed Espino <[email protected]> wrote: > While I was trying to track down the cause of MADLIB-1068, I managed to put > Postgres/MADlib under the debugger (gdb) and thought the configuration > would be of some help to someone. Essentially, I built postgres with the > following configure options: > > configure --enable-cassert --enable-debug --with-python > > I then was able to start a psql session and attach to the running session > with gdb. This allows one to set breakpoints, review variable values and > all the other cool gdb debugging techniques. There is a reasonable amount > of information one can find on using gdb and on the web. It was much easier > than I originally envisioned. If anyone needs assistance with the setup, > please don't hesitate to ping me.
This is a pretty awesome tidbit! Any chance you can contribute it to the wiki? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MADLIB/ Perhaps even a brand new section on Debugging and Developing? Thanks, Roman.
