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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2000-08-11 18:31:10 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2000-08-11 18:31:10 +0000
commit7090c3e858562b88cdca4f908b0cf939b9327dc6 (patch)
tree430131e5bf2ffb07f234efdb9da1d24f45eaf2b2 /doc/src
parentb0d5036c7cadb7458d00faffe9b194be8471c84a (diff)
Make debug_assertions default to ON, when compiled in at all, for
backwards compatibility with old behavior.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 5b85a80c6b9..ada29b5b601 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.17 2000/07/22 14:49:00 petere Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.18 2000/08/11 18:31:06 tgl Exp $
-->
<Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -683,8 +683,11 @@ env PGOPTIONS='--geqo=off' psql
Turns on various assertion checks. This is a debugging aid. If
you are experiencing strange problems or crashes you might
want to turn this on, as it might expose programming mistakes.
- To use this option, the macro <literal>USE_ASSERT_CHECKING</>
- must be defined when Postgres is built.
+ To use this option, the macro <literal>USE_ASSERT_CHECKING</literal>
+ must be defined when Postgres is built (see the configure option
+ <literal>--enable-cassert</literal>). Note that
+ <literal>DEBUG_ASSERTIONS</literal> defaults to ON if Postgres
+ has been built this way.
</para>
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