On Tuesday 28 November 2006 10:05, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simon Riggs wrote: > >> I'm planning to > >> - add a new section to Performance Tips chapter called Dynamic > > > > In my mind it's a little late for revising the documentation structure. > > I'd also think that DTrace is not a tuning tool but a monitoring tool > > which might place it closer to the description of the statistics > > collector. I think the original plan even placed it into the Internals > > part. > > I was about to say the same. In my mind DTrace is primarily a hacker's > tool --- I do not foresee the average DBA using it. So it does not > belong in the Performance Tips chapter. A new chapter under Internals > is probably as good as anything. >
I'm not certain how best the postgresql specific probes will be used, but I might disagree with the above take as we're already using some kernel level dtrace probes to make DBA oriented tools... see http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/74-PostgreSQL-performance-through-the-eyes-of-DTrace.html for one specific example. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
