On 06/09/2018 18:36, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Peter Eisentraut 2018-09-06 <5a925ee4-d26b-94fc-4a34-0ad24ed7d103@2ndquadrant.com>
>> Could we please build the Debian packages of PostgreSQL with
>> --enable-dtrace, using systemtap-sdt-dev? Maybe that wasn't very useful
>> in the past, but at least since kernel 4.8 you can use that for tracing
>> with perf.
>
> I was pondering about that earlier:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180512064611.GC19285@msg.df7cb.de
Hmm, that argument doesn't seem very specific.
FWIW, the PGDG CentOS packages have it enabled.
> Do we want to enable that
> [ ] on all architectures
> [ ] on all distributions
> [ ] for all PG major versions
> ?
I don't see why not all of them, unless there is one where it
specifically doesn't work.
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