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Re: [PATCH] dtrace probes for memory manager

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: <jd@commandprompt.com>,"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
Date: 2009-11-13T21:22:38Z
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
 
> Is it possible to have a set of probes that would only be enabled
> with say, --enable-debug compile time option?
 
But we routinely build with that for normal production use so that if
we get a core dump or need to backtrace a problem process, we will get
meaningful results.  Please don't create a performance penalty for
compiling with debug info.  (We'd probably wind up disabling it....)
 
-Kevin