On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 15:15, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> Do we want to backpatch it into contrib/? Adding a new module there >> seems kind of wrong - probably better to keep the source separate and >> just publish the DLL files for people who do debugging? > > If this works without changes to core, I see little reason not to > back-patch it into contrib. Our primary concern with back-patching is > to avoid doing things that might break existing installations, but if > there aren't any core changes, I don't really see how that can be an > issue here. It seems to me that it's probably simpler for us and our > users to keep the debugging tools together with our main tree. > > However, I am not clear what benefit we get from moving this into core > in 9.1. If it's still going to require a full postmaster restart, the > GUC you have to change may as well be shared_preload_libraries as a > new one.
on-by-default is what we gain. I think that's fairly big... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
