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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:34:15 -0500
From: Peter Koczan <pjkoczan@gmail.com>
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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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Subject: Re: stracing a connection
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Thank you Alvaro, it worked.

I got confused when I did it before since gdb couldn't figure out half 
of the elements in the backtrace, and strace kept saying "I can't 
attach", which was only because gdb was already attached to that same 
process.

Peter

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Koczan escribió:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm running into a few problems with postgres connections, specifically
>> notify/listening connections. What program(s) should I attach to the
>> connection using gdb or strace in order to actually get some useful data?
>>
>> i.e. I'll be using something like "strace -p [pid] [command]", what should I
>> use for [command]?
>>     
>
> strace -p pid
> gdb -p pid
>
> You don't need to specify the command at all.
>
>