Hello, I want to be able to check if autovacuuming is working in my postgresql setup. I have no idea how to find that out, so I asked in the postgresql lists. Someone suggested that I try to use pgadmin3 to try to monitor how many rows a table has in the data files. So I built pgadmin3. But as soon as I run it, it core dumps. Now I would like to debug the problem, but I have no idea how to do that. When I use OS/2, I simply compile with the appropriate debugging options, and made sure that the linker didn't strip debugging information. Then I run the program through the debugger, and .. well.. I find, and fix the, problem(s). Even if I forget to compile the program with the appropriate debugging options, I could always see the machine code in the debugger. I don't even know where to begin when it comes to debugging programs in NetBSD. Well, actually, I do. I guess I should use "gdb" (and since I have some experience kernel debugging OS/2 with the debug kernel, I don't feel completely lost). But how do I get source code view in "gdb"? How do I make sure that the appropriate debugging data is compiled in when I build packages from pkgsrc? It's about time I learn this stuff on NetBSD, but I'm quite overwhelmed by it. Not nearly as simple as on OS/2 and Windows, IMHO. Anyone want to help me get started? -- Kind regards, Jan Danielsson
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