I'm one of those old-fashioned folks that debugs with print lines and raise notices. They're nice.
They always work, you can put clock time stops in there and don't require any fancy configuration.
At a certain point you do have to pull out a real debugger to see what is going on. This often
happens when your one-liners are no longer good enough and now you have to write 20 liners of plpgsql code.
Such is the case with geocoding and the PostGIS tiger geocoder specifically. Lots of interest has revived
on that with people submitting bug reports and we've got paying clients in need of a fairly easy and speedy drop-in geocoder
that can be molded to handle such things as road way locations, badly mis-spelled real estate data, or just simply
to get rid of their dependency on Google, Yahoo, MapQuest, ESRI and other online or pricey geocoding tools.
So I thought I'd take this opportunity to supplement our old-fashioned debugging with plpgsqldebugger goodness.
In this article, we'll show you how to configure the plpgsql debugger integrated in PgAdmin and run with it.
