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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-10-03 22:55:56 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-10-03 22:55:56 +0000
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Add a trace_sort option to help with measuring resource usage of external
sort operations. Per recent discussion. Simon Riggs and Tom Lane.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index d239654b47b..710605ca700 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.23 2005/09/24 23:25:31 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.24 2005/10/03 22:55:50 tgl Exp $
-->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Run-time Configuration</title>
@@ -4071,6 +4071,21 @@ plruby.use_strict = true # generates error: unknown class name
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="guc-trace-sort" xreflabel="trace_sort">
+ <term><varname>trace_sort</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary><varname>trace_sort</> configuration parameter</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ If on, emit information about resource usage during sort operations.
+ This option is only available if the <symbol>TRACE_SORT</symbol> macro
+ was defined when <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> was compiled.
+ (However, <symbol>TRACE_SORT</symbol> is currently defined by default.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>trace_locks</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
<term><varname>trace_lwlocks</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>