Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: > I came up with a simple approach to conveniently attaching a debugger > when a bug manifested itself from within the regression tests, by > patching Postgres. This worked quite well. The backend would look for > the occurrence of a magical token within each and every query string.
If your approach involves modifying a target query in a regression test, it really seems unnecessary to do all this. Just insert something like "select pg_sleep(60)" into the test script before the target query. A variant is to insert a sleep() in the C code, in someplace you don't expect will be reached except in the problematic cases. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers