Re: PL/pgSQL Debugger Support

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:40:18PM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Denis Lussier <denisl(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >
> >>I got to thinking it'd be kewl if PgAdmin3 supported an interactive
> >>debugger for pl/pgsql.
> >
> >That's been kicked around before, although I don't think anyone wants to
> >tie it to pgAdmin specifically. Check the archives...
>
> I didn't find anything relevant after a quick search, but if memory
> serves, one of the objections to PgAdmin was that it was windows only.
> This of course is no longer true as of PgAdmin III 1.0. It now support
> Win32, Linux and FreeBSD. So perhaps that objection is no longer valid.

I think the point is that we will have to make some modifications to
PL/pgSQL, so why not make sure we write something that any tool can use?
Say, a well-defined BE/FE protocol extension.

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