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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: DTrace docs, Open Items and Performance
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:05:37 -0500
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Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I'm planning to
>> - add a new section to Performance Tips chapter called Dynamic

> 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.

I was about to say the same.  In my mind DTrace is primarily a hacker's
tool --- I do not foresee the average DBA using it.  So it does not
belong in the Performance Tips chapter.  A new chapter under Internals
is probably as good as anything.

			regards, tom lane

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