Re: -DDISABLE_ENABLE_ASSERT

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: -DDISABLE_ENABLE_ASSERT
Date: 2014-05-23 11:20:12
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaSPGaawEP8LvGuVYEj_4MXXvj_qcd_yAVUz73qgfwMXw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2014-05-22 16:37:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> > We could do that ... but I wonder if we shouldn't remove assert_enabled
>> > altogether. What's the use case for turning it off? Not matching the
>> > speed of a non-cassert build, because for instance MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING
>> > doesn't get turned off.
>>
>> I've used it once or twice to avoid having to recompile postgres when I
>> wanted things not to be *that* slow (AtEOXactBuffers() I am looking at
>> you). But I wouldn't be very sad if it'd go.
>>
>> Anybody against that?
>
> I have used it too (for a different reason IIRC), but like you I
> wouldn't have a problem if it weren't there.

I've used it, too, although not recently.

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Robert Haas
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