Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D499FB235 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:09:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60058-07 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:09:28 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E7BF9FA28E for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:09:32 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2006 11:09:29 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-052-142.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.52.142] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 28 Nov 2006 12:09:29 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: DTrace docs, Open Items and Performance Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:09:26 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Simon Riggs" References: <1164710275.3778.464.camel@silverbirch.site> In-Reply-To: <1164710275.3778.464.camel@silverbirch.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611281209.27611.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200611/84 X-Sequence-Number: 3918 Simon Riggs wrote: > I'm planning to > - add a new section to Performance Tips chapter called Dynamic > Tracing - rename the chapter Performance & Tuning. > - add some further intro stuff on chapter header page In my mind it's a little late for revising the documentation structure. I'd also think that DTrace is not a tuning tool but a monitoring tool which might place it closer to the description of the statistics collector. I think the original plan even placed it into the Internals part. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/