Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-05 Thread Robert Lor
Simon Riggs wrote On 12/02/06 06:50,: Robert, Can you throw any light on this? Or do you have any further comments on the docs? http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/dynamic-trace.html Here is what the dtrace man page says about the -32 and -64 flags: The D compiler

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Simon Riggs wrote: Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. I have a question here, regarding this: To include DTrace support in a 64-bit binary, specify --enable-dtrace and DTRACEFLAGS=-64 to configure. The dtrace documentation says that dtrace automatically picks the right

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This includes refactoring of some of the trace related GUC docs from config.sgml, so its all in the one place. Why exactly is that a good idea? Since DTrace is Solaris-only, this almost seems like an attempt to hide non-Solaris-specific information where

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Simon Riggs a écrit : Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. This includes some heavily rewritten words and mostly verbatim programs from http://blogs.sun.com/robertlor/entry/user_level_dtrace_probes_in, as invited to do by Josh Berkus and Robert Lor on 27 Nov in private

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. After some thought I decided it's probably best to stick this into monitoring.sgml for now. If it gets big enough to deserve its own chapter we can think about where else to put it. Committed with some

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 01:02 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: Simon Riggs a écrit : Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. This includes some heavily rewritten words and mostly verbatim programs from http://blogs.sun.com/robertlor/entry/user_level_dtrace_probes_in, as invited

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 18:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This includes refactoring of some of the trace related GUC docs from config.sgml, so its all in the one place. Why exactly is that a good idea? All of the trace options that require code edits to

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. After some thought I decided it's probably best to stick this into monitoring.sgml for now. If it gets big enough to deserve its own chapter we can

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. Committed with some rewording and SGML fixes. Looks like you removed this line @commit[Abort] = count(); which means you should also remove

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oh, seems like Tom got it into CVS. Good. --- Simon Riggs wrote: Enclose new trace.sgml file as discussed on -docs. This includes some heavily rewritten words and mostly verbatim programs from

Re: [PATCHES] Dynamic Tracing docs

2006-12-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Also, it is probably too late to add something of this magnitude this close to wrapping the tarball, but I might be mistaken. --- Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This includes refactoring of some of