On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Murtuza Zabuawala > <murtuza.zabuaw...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> Hi Dave, >> >> I faced the same issue when I initially tried that, but then as per Neel >> suggestion I changed SELECT pg_sleep() to PERFORM pg_sleep() in function. >> You will face the same in pgAdmin3 if you use select pg_sleep() in your >> function the debug call never returns from DB server. > > In which case, doesn't that imply the debugger is missing critical > debug info? If I run the query in the query tool, I get: > > ==== > INFO: EMPNO ENAME > INFO: ----- ------- > ERROR: query has no destination for result data > HINT: If you want to discard the results of a SELECT, use PERFORM instead. > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function list_emp() line 11 at SQL statement > > > Query returned successfully in 2 secs. > ==== > > It seems to me that the debugger should be able to give the same error. > > Regardless of that, I'll test with PERFORM.
Which I just did - and whilst it seemed to be fine when stepping through, after a few iterations I hit the continue button, at which point it froze again on "PERFORM pg_sleep(2)", didn't print any more of the 14 names in the emp table, and didn't return :-( -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list (pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
