Ravi Kiran <ravi.kolanpaka@gmail.com> writes:
> how do we attach a gdb to a running postgres service in eclipse, I am
> executing a program in eclipse, I gave some break points in that, but the
> control goes to main.c and never comes back. how do we make sure that the
> query we execute logically touches the break points.
I think perhaps you attached to the wrong subprocess. I'm not an eclipse
user, but there are some hints here:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Eclipse#Debugging_with_child_processes
If you're not too sure which child process is serving your session, try
doing "select pg_backend_pid();".
regards, tom lane
