| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Lor <Robert(dot)Lor(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: DTrace probe patch for OS X Leopard |
| Date: | 2008-02-29 16:03:13 |
| Message-ID: | 2791.1204300993@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Lor <Robert(dot)Lor(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I understand that these probe names follow some global naming scheme. Is it
>> hard to change that? I'd feel more comfortable with, say,
>> (D)TRACE_POSTGRESQL_LWLOCK_ACQUIRE().
>>
> Because the macro is auto generated and follows certain naming
> conventions, prepending TRACE_ will not work. If you did that, the probe
> name will be called "postgresql-lwlock-aquire" and the provider will be
> "trace" which is not what we want.
Ugh. Is this tool really so badly designed that it thinks it has
ownership of the *entire* namespace within the target program?
regards, tom lane
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