Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-29T22:07:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On tis, 2011-11-29 at 16:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have applied the attached patch to help make suggestsions for server > developers. I didn't reproduce most of the text because it was already > listed with the options. Let me know if you want additional text. Advising "server developers" to use CFLAGS="-O0 -g", without qualification, is dangerous, in my mind, because that loses a lot of compiler checks. The only reason to use -O0 is when you really need to debug something in single steps and you can't make sense of it any other way.