On 2018-06-20 12:12:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > I'm fairly frequently annoyed that when I see an error message in the > > log, I can't just generally set a breakpoint on the included line > > number. That's because the line number in the error message is from the > > *end* of the message: > > IME it varies depending on which compiler you use; some report the line > where the ereport is. So I'm doubtful that there's going to be much we > can do about it. Probably this behavior is bound up with macro expansion > vs. just when __LINE__ is expanded.
Seems it can be hacked around: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13497879 But yikes, that's ugly. There's apparenty some discussion in the standard committees trying to unify the behaviour across compilers, but ... Greetings, Andres Freund