From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Dtrace probes documentation
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 18:28:14 -0400
Message-ID: <1856.1243549694@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090528220739.GA15201@eddie>
References: <20090528220739.GA15201@eddie>
Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:
> The dtrace probes documentation [1] spells each probe name with dashes
> ("transaction-start", "transaction-commit", etc.). Yet as far as I can see,
> dtrace only works if you spell the probe names with double underscores
> ("transaction__start", "transaction__commit", etc.). Why the discrepancy?
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.
regards, tom lane
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, eggyknap@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Dtrace probes documentation
In-Reply-To: <1856.1243549694@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox