Re: A script to make some bug report easier - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Qingqing Zhou
Subject Re: A script to make some bug report easier
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0510271551160.5423@eon.cs
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In response to Re: A script to make some bug report easier  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Does that actually work?  On most of the platforms I use, gdb doesn't
> get far with only a core file, you have to tell it which executable file
> to reference.
Yeah, it works. There is a command in the script like:
    file ./postgres

> Worse, many distros ship executables stripped, which means gdb'ing is a
> pretty useless activity anyway.
>
True.

> A bigger problem is that we've largely stopped shipping shell scripts as
> part of the distro, because they don't work on Windows.
>
True. Do you believe any need to design/write a tool like automating bug
report?

Regards,
Qingqing

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