Re: [HACKERS] Dtrace probes documentation

2009-06-01 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us 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

Re: [HACKERS] Dtrace probes documentation

2009-05-31 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua Tolley eggyk...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:28:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Read 26.4.3 and .4. I don't know why they have this bizarre set of conventions, but the single-hyphen version is the spelling most visible to end users. I thought it might be something like

[HACKERS] Dtrace probes documentation

2009-05-28 Thread Joshua Tolley
The dtrace probes documentation [1] spells each probe name with dashes (transaction-start, transaction-commit, etc.). Yet as far as I can see, dtrace only works if you spell the probe names with double underscores (transaction__start, transaction__commit, etc.). Why the discrepancy? Obvious patch

Re: [HACKERS] Dtrace probes documentation

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua Tolley eggyk...@gmail.com writes: The dtrace probes documentation [1] spells each probe name with dashes (transaction-start, transaction-commit, etc.). Yet as far as I can see, dtrace only works if you spell the probe names with double underscores (transaction__start,

Re: [HACKERS] Dtrace probes documentation

2009-05-28 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:28:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua Tolley eggyk...@gmail.com writes: The dtrace probes documentation [1] spells each probe name with dashes (transaction-start, transaction-commit, etc.). Yet as far as I can see, dtrace only works if you spell the probe names