Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On tis, 2011-11-29 at 16:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I have applied the attached patch to help make suggestsions for server
>> developers. I didn't reproduce most of the text because it was already
>> listed with the options. Let me know if you want additional text.
> Advising "server developers" to use CFLAGS="-O0 -g", without
> qualification, is dangerous, in my mind, because that loses a lot of
> compiler checks. The only reason to use -O0 is when you really need to
> debug something in single steps and you can't make sense of it any other
> way.
Yes. -O0 is really a pretty horrid default choice, and we should NOT be
recommending it, especially not with no discussion of the disadvantages.
regards, tom lane