To: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>
cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Dtrace probes documentation 
In-reply-to: <20090528232039.GD15201@eddie> 
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Comments: In-reply-to Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>
	message dated "Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:39 -0600"
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 16:07:40 -0400
Message-ID: <14260.1243800460@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:28:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Read 26.4.3 and .4.  I don't know why they have this bizarre set of
>> conventions, but the single-hyphen version is the spelling
>> most visible to end users.

> I thought it might be something like that. I've been playing with SystemTap,
> and found that only the double-underscore version works for ... well, anything.
> See http://blog.endpoint.com/2009/05/postgresql-with-systemtap.html for
> details. Perhaps it's worth noting in the documentation that SystemTap users
> will need to use the double-underscore version?

I think a better solution is to persuade the Systemtap guys that they
ought to accept the single-hyphen spelling.  I've put in a request for
that, we'll see what they think ...

			regards, tom lane