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Re: plpgsql: Debug function?

Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

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From: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
To: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-07-25T15:25:56Z
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On 25 Jul 2001, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:

> >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> writes:
> 
>     Joel> On 25 Jul 2001, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>     >> Is there a way to debug a PL/pgSQL function? It's behaving very
>     >> irradic!
> 
>     Joel> It's crude, but you can output debugging statements w/ RAISE
>     Joel> NOTICE or catch flawed assumptions by RAISE EXCEPTION.
> 
> That's what I've been doing...
> 
> The problem is that a 'SELECT INTO ...' in the function don't work, but
> the actual SELECT in psql works fine! 
> 
> The variable I'm SELECT'ing into don't get initialized...

Can you post a simple, reproducible example?

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Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington