| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | "Henriksen, Jonas F" <jonas(dot)f(dot)henriksen(at)imr(dot)no> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How to debug pl/pgSQL -script? |
| Date: | 2004-10-01 13:28:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20041001132830.GA5175@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:05:14PM +0200, Henriksen, Jonas F wrote:
> I'm writing some simple triggers and functions for a postgres
> database, and I'm wondering how to go about to debug a
> pl/pgSQL-script. Is there a way to echo variable-content to screen, or
> to file? Or is there other, more advanced ways of debugging such
> scripts?
Yes, use RAISE NOTICE. See the docs -- it takes a string which can have
% in them, like printf %-escapes but without the modifiers.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Postgres is bloatware by design: it was built to house
PhD theses." (Joey Hellerstein, SIGMOD annual conference 2002)
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