PARANOIA_LEVEL

[Sandro Santilli]

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

--strk;
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