Re: TRACE_SORT defined by default - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: TRACE_SORT defined by default
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Msg-id 20190424212908.GA5263@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: TRACE_SORT defined by default  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
Responses Re: TRACE_SORT defined by default
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On 2019-Apr-24, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> I suspect that the reason that this hasn't happened already is because
> it leaves trace_sort/TRACE_SORT in the slightly awkward position of no
> longer quite meeting the traditional definition of a "developer
> option".

This is a really strange argument.  You're saying that somebody thought
about it: "Hmm, well, I can remove this preprocessor symbol but then
trace_sort would no longer resemble a developer option.  So I'm going to
leave the symbol alone".  I don't think that's what happened.  It seems
more likely to me that nobody has gone to the trouble of deciding that
the symbol is worth removing, let alone actually doing it.

If the instrumentation is good, and you seem to be saying that it is, I
think we should just remove the symbol and be done with it.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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