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From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Reinitialize stack base after fork (for the benefit of rr)?
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In response to Reinitialize stack base after fork (for the benefit of rr)?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Reinitialize stack base after fork (for the benefit of rr)?  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:22 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> I've found rr [1] very useful to debug issues in postgres. The ability
> to hit a bug, and then e.g. identify a pointer with problematic
> contents, set a watchpoint on its contents, and reverse-continue is
> extremely powerful.

I agree that rr is very useful. It would be great if we had a totally
smooth workflow for debugging using rr.

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Peter Geoghegan

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