On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:14 PM Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:54:53PM -0700, Igal Sapir wrote: > > Thank you, Michael, but my goal is not to just build from source, but to > > run Postgres in an IDE. I tried CLion because it's modern and cross > > platform, but I am open to other IDEs. > > > > What IDEs do Postgres hackers use (other than vi with gcc)? > > A set of N people would likely result in more than (N+1) different > approaches when it comes to that. The environment is old school here > as I just have a set of terminals coupled with emacs as editor and > gcc/clang, but you have a large set of editors at your disposal (nano, > vi, etc.). > I'd actually be happy with (N+1) different approaches. It will allow me, and others like, to choose the one that works for us best. > > Is there any documentation or posts on how to set up the project in an > IDE? > > It depends on what you are actually trying to do and how you want to > ease your development experience. I have little experience with CLion > or such kind of tools, some with Eclipse, but I find that kind of > cumbersome as well when it comes to C. > At the moment I am trying to run psql in a debugger with breakpoints. I have spent many hours troubleshooting a `\copy` from a large CSV that kept failing, until I realized that there was a null character in the middle of a quoted string. I'd be happy to submit a patch that at least warns of such issues when they happen. Thanks, Igal
