Re: Assert Levels

greg

On 19 Sep 2008, at 13:20, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> Can we introduce levels of assertion?
>
> The thing that is good about Assert() is that it doesn't require a lot
> of programmer effort to put one in.  I'm not in favor of complexifying
> it.
>

Perhaps just an Assert_expensive() would be useful if someone wants to  
to the work of going through all the assertions and determining if  
they're especially expensive. We already have stuff like CLOBBER*.

You'll also have to do enough empirical tests to convince people that  
a --enable-cheap-casserts build really does perform the same as a  
regular build.




>            regards, tom lane
>
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