Re: [PATCH] dtrace probes for memory manager - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH] dtrace probes for memory manager
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Msg-id 9666.1258146376@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to [PATCH] dtrace probes for memory manager  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
> Attached patch contains new dtrace probes for memory management.

This is a bad idea and I want to reject it outright.  No ordinary user
is really going to care about those details, and palloc is a
sufficiently hot hot-spot that even the allegedly negligible overhead
of an inactive dtrace probe is going to cost us.

If this goes in, I will disable dtrace support in Red Hat's builds,
and I rather imagine that other packagers will react similarly.
        regards, tom lane


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