Re: Assert Levels

greg

On 19 Sep 2008, at 13:20, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Can we introduce levels of assertion?
>
> The thing that is good about Assert() is that it doesn't require a lot
> of programmer effort to put one in. I'm not in favor of complexifying
> it.
>

Perhaps just an Assert_expensive() would be useful if someone wants to
to the work of going through all the assertions and determining if
they're especially expensive. We already have stuff like CLOBBER*.

You'll also have to do enough empirical tests to convince people that
a --enable-cheap-casserts build really does perform the same as a
regular build.

> regards, tom lane
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