Commit 82b55c97 authored by Peter Eisentraut's avatar Peter Eisentraut

doc: Update DTrace information

The old web site link no longer worked, and some information was
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...@@ -1814,14 +1814,12 @@ SELECT pg_stat_get_backend_pid(s.backendid) AS pid, ...@@ -1814,14 +1814,12 @@ SELECT pg_stat_get_backend_pid(s.backendid) AS pid,
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Currently, only the Currently, the
<ulink url="http://opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/">DTrace</ulink> <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace">DTrace</ulink>
utility is supported, which is available utility is supported, which, at the time of this writing, is available
on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, and Mac OS X Leopard. It is expected that on Solaris, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Oracle Linux. The
DTrace will be available in the future on FreeBSD and possibly other
operating systems. The
<ulink url="http://sourceware.org/systemtap/">SystemTap</ulink> project <ulink url="http://sourceware.org/systemtap/">SystemTap</ulink> project
for Linux also provides a DTrace equivalent. Supporting other dynamic for Linux provides a DTrace equivalent and can also be used. Supporting other dynamic
tracing utilities is theoretically possible by changing the definitions for tracing utilities is theoretically possible by changing the definitions for
the macros in <filename>src/include/utils/probes.h</>. the macros in <filename>src/include/utils/probes.h</>.
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