Re: Trouble debugging contrib/fulltextindex

Christopher Kings-Lynne writes:

> 1. How do you compile contribs with full debugging symbols. I always get
> heuristic-fencepost-blah probs with gdb even though I've configured postgres
> with all the debugging stuff.

First, compile without optimization (-O0). Second, using LOAD to load the
shared object before the function call may be of advantage. I would allow
you to set breakpoints in the loaded object, for example. Just waiting
for the code to crash and hoping to get a good backtrace isn't always a
successful strategy.

> 2. Should contribs exclusively use palloc/pfree?

Yes (unless there are some wildly unusual memory allocation requirements).

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