| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: DTrace docs, Open Items and Performance |
| Date: | 2006-11-28 15:05:37 |
| Message-ID: | 5658.1164726337@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> 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.
regards, tom lane
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