jit_profiling_support — PostgreSQL configuration parameter

If LLVM has the required functionality, emit the data needed to allow perf to profile functions generated by JIT.

At a glance

What it does

If LLVM has the required functionality, emit the data needed to allow perf to profile functions generated by JIT. This writes out files to ~/.debug/jit/; the user is responsible for performing cleanup when desired. The default setting is off. Only superusers and users with the appropriate SET privilege can change this parameter at session start, and it cannot be changed at all within a session.

(Description quoted from the official PostgreSQL documentation.)

How to apply a change

Can be set per session with SET, per role/database with ALTER ROLE/DATABASE ... SET, or globally in postgresql.conf.

Inspect the current value and source with SHOW jit_profiling_support; or SELECT name, setting, unit, context, source FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'jit_profiling_support';.

Tuning guidance

This is a developer and debugging aid, not a performance knob. Leave it at the default in production; enable it only temporarily, on a non-production or carefully controlled system, while diagnosing a specific problem. Several options in this group add overhead, generate large volumes of log output, or can damage data if misused — turn them off again as soon as the investigation is done.

Reference

PostgreSQL documentation — jit_profiling_support.