Re: PostgreSQL stops when adding a breakpoint in CLion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: PostgreSQL stops when adding a breakpoint in CLion
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Msg-id a0add4d2-3668-c19a-d7d4-d54312c484e9@enterprisedb.com
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In response to PostgreSQL stops when adding a breakpoint in CLion  (Stanislav Bashkyrtsev <stanislav.bashkirtsev@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL stops when adding a breakpoint in CLion
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On 1/3/22 16:54, Stanislav Bashkyrtsev wrote:
> I tried debugging PostgreSQL to better understand how it works. It 
> worked fine a day ago, but for some reason I have issues with debugging now:
> 
> - If I put a breakpoint before I start the process then everything works 
> fine
> - But if I put/remove a breakpoint after it's fully initialized - the 
> process just stops
> 
> And when reading the next command postgres.c, I see that 
> input_message is empty. I assume CLion sends a signal which awakens 
> PostgreSQL, but there's no data on the input? But should PostgreSQL quit 
> in such a situation?
> 

Why do you think postgres quits? AFAIK CLion uses gdb or lldb for 
debugging, which are the debugger of choice for many (most?) hackers on 
this list. So that should work fine.

> The way I build and start:
> make clean
> ./configure --enable-cassert --enable-debug CFLAGS="-ggdb -O0 -g3 
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
> make
> make install
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /Users/stas/projects/postgres/data
> 
> Starting command:
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres --single -D 
> /Users/stas/projects/postgres/data postgres

Now sure why you start it in single-user mode, but I don't think that 
should affect debugging. Try redirecting the output to a log file, maybe 
that'll tell you what happened.


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
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