Re: -DDISABLE_ENABLE_ASSERT

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(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 12:15:47
Message-ID: 20140523121547.GG31579@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-05-23 07:20:12 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> 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.

That means you're for a (differently named) disable macro? Or is it not
recent enough that you don't care?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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