PARANOIA_LEVEL

[Regina Obe]

> 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;

+1