Tom Lane writes:
> [...]
> Lastly, an atexit trigger will still fire during FATAL or PANIC aborts,
> which scares me even more. When the house is already afire, it's
> not prudent to politely let user-written perl code do whatever it wants
> before you get the heck out of there.
Is there a reas
Hi -
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:33:28PM +0100, Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> [...]
> > If the dormant overhead of these probes is measured or suspected to be
> > excessive, consider using the dtrace-generated per-probe foo_ENABLED()
> > conditional, or a postgres configuration global thusly:
> [...] fo
Zdenek Kotala writes:
> [...]
> + header = (StandardChunkHeader *)
> + ((char *) ret - STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE);
> +
> +// TRACE_POSTGRESQL_MCXT_ALLOC(context->name, context, size, header->size,
> true);
> +
> [...]
If the dormant overhead of these probes is measured or suspec
Tom Lane writes:
> [...]
>> See http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/05/postgresql-with-systemtap.html for
>> details. Perhaps it's worth noting in the documentation that SystemTap users
>> will need to use the double-underscore version?
>
> I think a better solution is to persuade the Systemtap guys th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Allen) writes:
: [...] Near the end he gets specifically asked about "Red Hat
: Database" as a competitive threat, and he responds that he doesn't
: think anyone can match their "investment" of "800 professionals" to
: work on SQL Server. [...]
It would be naive to dism
markw wrote:
: [...] Actually I have been thinking about a couple projects I have
: done. Vendors like to think XML is a way to distribute databases.
I would find it very helpful to see a table of what sorts of XML
functionality each major vendor supports.
: So a parser that can scan a DTD a
tgl wrote:
: [...] (We have to physically fill each segment with zeroes to
: ensure that the system has actually allocated a whole 16MB to it;
: otherwise we fall victim to the "hole-saving" allocation technique
: of most Unix filesystems.) [...]
Could you explain how postgresql can "fall vic
