On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Ashutosh Bapat < ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > 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. Instead I wrote a > function bms_to_char() which allocates a StringInfo, calls > outBitmapset() to decode Bitmapset as a set of integers and returns > the string. In order to examine a Relids object all one has to do is > execute 'p bms_to_char(bms_object) under gdb. > > Can we not do this as gdb macros? My knowledge is rusty in this area and lately I'm using LVM debugger (which probably does not have something equivalent), but I believe gdb allows you to write useful macros. As a bonus, you can then use them even for inspecting core files. Thanks, Pavan -- Pavan Deolasee http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
