Debugging, profiling, and tracing of the executed commands play an important role in development of any applications. This is also true for developing stored procedures in DBMS.

PostgreSQL offers various tools (both built-in and external) for these purposes.

In this talk, we will provide an overview of the available tools and their advantages and disadvantages, as well as a detailed demo of their use cases.

This talk is a part of a basic course for backend application developers (DEV1), which “Postgres Professional” company plans to announce in the near future.