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.
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