[mapserver-users] Re: PostGIS Layer Bug

[Paul Ramsey]

One of the difficulties we have found with mapserver is that getting
debugging information usually involves the use of... a debugger! If
there was a run-time DEBUG ON directive (or even DEBUG INFO, DEBUG WARN,
DEBUG ERR, DEBUG OFF) in the map file, we could dump information to
STDERR (and thence to the Apache error_log) which would make it much
easer for users to track down where things are going awry. Failing that,
a global compile-time flag would be helpful. We are going to put in
compile-time support for debugging to stderr anyways, but run-time would
be nice too.

Dave Blasby wrote:
> 
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >
> > http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2002-June/001087.html
> >
> > We should keep this on the burner for looking at. At a minimum,
> > committing a change to the mapserver CVS which prints the SQL query and
> > other useful things to STDERR when a debugging option is turned on might
> > help people (and us!).
> 
> I tried to convince them to put a debug option in the layer description
> in the .map file, but they didnt want to...
> 
> dave