> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: 21 May 2002 16:33
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More schema queries
>
>
> > What I cannot do is get it to show me anything useful.
>
> It sounds like gdb does not have access to debugging symbol tables.
>
> Firstly, did you compile with -g (configure --enable-debug)?
Yes, but when I read this I realised that I forget to 'make clean'
before rebuilding. Having done that I then found that gdb eats about
100Mb of memory and 50% of cpu without actually displaying itself until
killed 10 minutes later. I tried this twice - I guess that gdb under
cygwin has trouble with large exe's as my machine should handle it
(PIII-M 1.13GHz, 512Mb).
> Secondly, did you point gdb at the postgres executable when
> you started it?
Yes, I added a 60 second wait to the appropriate part of initdb (-W 60).
I could also get a stack trace which showed that I had broken in
RangeVarGetCreationNamespace as intended.
Regards, Dave.