pgsql: Fix SystemTap dtrace warning about smgr probe argument types.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Fix SystemTap dtrace warning about smgr probe argument types.
Date: 2026-07-30 00:26:00
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Fix SystemTap dtrace warning about smgr probe argument types.

Commits ca326e903 and 1f8c504e3 widened the byte-count arguments of
smgr__md__read__done and smgr__md__write__done to "long long int".
SystemTap's dtrace(1) fails on that specific spelling and falls back
with a warning (misreported near the previous probe). Use ssize_t
and size_t instead, matching the md.c call sites.

Revise probes.d's note about which types are usable as probe
arguments: recommend using system-supplied type names (macOS dtrace
rejects names like PostgreSQL's uint64), and call out "long long int"
as a known SystemTap failure case rather than a wider failure mode.

Also, update the monitoring.sgml entries for these probes,
which were missed by the prior commits.

Reported-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Author: Andrey Rachitskiy <pl0h0yp1(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/697d3c88568442cd637d8453d129f1bb14bbd2a8.camel@cybertec.at

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8f191a79617d906e34d041382e6ecfbf78166a65

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 4 ++--
src/backend/utils/probes.d | 14 ++++++++++----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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