Re: Dtrace probes documentation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dtrace probes documentation
Date: 2009-05-28 22:28:14
Message-ID: 1856.1243549694@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)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

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