PARANOIA_LEVEL

['Sandro Santilli']

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 04:25:55PM -0500, Regina Obe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 08:13:04AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > > Just a reminder, if you build postgis with —enable-debug, the
> > PARANOIA_LEVEL gets bumped up, and that can have huge performance effects
> > which make any kind of benchmarking a whack-a-mole process.
> > >
> > > I guess I internalized the idea that —enable-debug would just drop a ‘-g’ flag
> > into the build and that’s about it, but in fact it has these other deleterious effects.
> > Among other things, it makes lwcollection_add_lwgeom a couple orders of
> > magnitude slower.
> > >
> > > Anyways, super important for anyone building for release too. You aren’t just
> > getting debug symbols!
> > >
> > > I wonder if we should split off —enable-debug from other “developer
> > affordances”, in a different option, kind of like how pgsql as —enable-cassert and
> > some other #define only options for things like memory checking and so on.
> > 
> > +1 --enable-paranoia would sound good
> 
> +1

Actually I guess it should be --with-paranoia-level N

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