> On 22 Nov 2025, at 14:00, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> wrote:
>
> On 2025-Nov-21, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>
>> The attached v2 adds a GUC debug_exec_backend which can be used to get the
>> state of the running cluster,
>
> Nice idea.
>
> I think the parallel to debug_assertions is not perfect, because you can
> turn off debug_assertions in a server built with them included, but you
> cannot turn off EXEC_BACKEND.
debug_assertions cannot be disabled anymore, since 3bdcf6a5a755.
> This says we shouldn't name the symbol
> with the DEFAULT word: it should just be "EXEC_BACKEND_ENABLED".
Regardless, I totally agree with that, fixed in the attached along with the
review comments from upthread.
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Daniel Gustafsson