Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@Sun.COM> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I understand that these probe names follow some global naming scheme. Is it
>> hard to change that? I'd feel more comfortable with, say,
>> (D)TRACE_POSTGRESQL_LWLOCK_ACQUIRE().
>>
> Because the macro is auto generated and follows certain naming
> conventions, prepending TRACE_ will not work. If you did that, the probe
> name will be called "postgresql-lwlock-aquire" and the provider will be
> "trace" which is not what we want.
Ugh. Is this tool really so badly designed that it thinks it has
ownership of the *entire* namespace within the target program?
regards, tom lane
