On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:05:14PM +0200, Henriksen, Jonas F wrote: > I'm writing some simple triggers and functions for a postgres > database, and I'm wondering how to go about to debug a > pl/pgSQL-script. Is there a way to echo variable-content to screen, or > to file? Or is there other, more advanced ways of debugging such > scripts?
Yes, use RAISE NOTICE. See the docs -- it takes a string which can have % in them, like printf %-escapes but without the modifiers. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Postgres is bloatware by design: it was built to house PhD theses." (Joey Hellerstein, SIGMOD annual conference 2002) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])