diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 43b31ad90446449d719985f9b4963c5fd1e6ffd0..b53acb350b276725b33af7a4b17a4725c0e44136 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ ac_includes_default="\
 # include <unistd.h>
 #endif"
 
-ac_subst_vars='SHELL PATH_SEPARATOR PACKAGE_NAME PACKAGE_TARNAME PACKAGE_VERSION PACKAGE_STRING PACKAGE_BUGREPORT exec_prefix prefix program_transform_name bindir sbindir libexecdir datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir libdir includedir oldincludedir infodir mandir build_alias host_alias target_alias DEFS ECHO_C ECHO_N ECHO_T LIBS configure_args build build_cpu build_vendor build_os host host_cpu host_vendor host_os PORTNAME docdir enable_nls WANTED_LANGUAGES default_port enable_shared enable_rpath enable_debug DTRACE DTRACEFLAGS enable_dtrace CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS ac_ct_CC EXEEXT OBJEXT CPP GCC TAS autodepend INCLUDES enable_thread_safety with_tcl with_perl with_python with_krb5 krb_srvtab with_pam with_ldap with_bonjour with_openssl XML2_CONFIG with_zlib EGREP ELF_SYS LDFLAGS_SL AWK FLEX FLEXFLAGS LN_S LD with_gnu_ld ld_R_works RANLIB ac_ct_RANLIB TAR STRIP ac_ct_STRIP STRIP_STATIC_LIB STRIP_SHARED_LIB YACC YFLAGS PERL perl_archlibexp perl_privlibexp perl_useshrplib perl_embed_ldflags PYTHON python_version python_configdir python_includespec python_libdir python_libspec python_additional_libs HAVE_IPV6 LIBOBJS acx_pthread_config PTHREAD_CC PTHREAD_LIBS PTHREAD_CFLAGS LDAP_LIBS_FE LDAP_LIBS_BE HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS MSGFMT MSGMERGE XGETTEXT localedir TCLSH TCL_CONFIG_SH TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC TCL_LIB_FILE TCL_LIBS TCL_LIB_SPEC TCL_SHARED_BUILD TCL_SHLIB_LD_LIBS NSGMLS JADE have_docbook DOCBOOKSTYLE COLLATEINDEX SGMLSPL vpath_build LTLIBOBJS'
+ac_subst_vars='SHELL PATH_SEPARATOR PACKAGE_NAME PACKAGE_TARNAME PACKAGE_VERSION PACKAGE_STRING PACKAGE_BUGREPORT exec_prefix prefix program_transform_name bindir sbindir libexecdir datadir sysconfdir sharedstatedir localstatedir libdir includedir oldincludedir infodir mandir build_alias host_alias target_alias DEFS ECHO_C ECHO_N ECHO_T LIBS configure_args build build_cpu build_vendor build_os host host_cpu host_vendor host_os PORTNAME docdir enable_nls WANTED_LANGUAGES default_port enable_shared enable_rpath enable_debug enable_profiling DTRACE DTRACEFLAGS enable_dtrace CC CFLAGS LDFLAGS CPPFLAGS ac_ct_CC EXEEXT OBJEXT CPP GCC TAS autodepend INCLUDES enable_thread_safety with_tcl with_perl with_python with_krb5 krb_srvtab with_pam with_ldap with_bonjour with_openssl XML2_CONFIG with_zlib EGREP ELF_SYS LDFLAGS_SL AWK FLEX FLEXFLAGS LN_S LD with_gnu_ld ld_R_works RANLIB ac_ct_RANLIB TAR STRIP ac_ct_STRIP STRIP_STATIC_LIB STRIP_SHARED_LIB YACC YFLAGS PERL perl_archlibexp perl_privlibexp perl_useshrplib perl_embed_ldflags PYTHON python_version python_configdir python_includespec python_libdir python_libspec python_additional_libs HAVE_IPV6 LIBOBJS acx_pthread_config PTHREAD_CC PTHREAD_LIBS PTHREAD_CFLAGS LDAP_LIBS_FE LDAP_LIBS_BE HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS MSGFMT MSGMERGE XGETTEXT localedir TCLSH TCL_CONFIG_SH TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC TCL_LIB_FILE TCL_LIBS TCL_LIB_SPEC TCL_SHARED_BUILD TCL_SHLIB_LD_LIBS NSGMLS JADE have_docbook DOCBOOKSTYLE COLLATEINDEX SGMLSPL vpath_build LTLIBOBJS'
 ac_subst_files=''
 
 # Initialize some variables set by options.
@@ -865,6 +865,7 @@ Optional Features:
   --disable-rpath         do not embed shared library search path in executables
   --disable-spinlocks     do not use spinlocks
   --enable-debug          build with debugging symbols (-g)
+  --enable-profiling      build with profiling enabled
   --enable-dtrace         build with DTrace support
   --enable-depend         turn on automatic dependency tracking
   --enable-cassert        enable assertion checks (for debugging)
@@ -1948,6 +1949,37 @@ fi;
 
 
 
+#
+# --enable-profiling enables gcc profiling
+#
+
+pgac_args="$pgac_args enable_profiling"
+
+# Check whether --enable-profiling or --disable-profiling was given.
+if test "${enable_profiling+set}" = set; then
+  enableval="$enable_profiling"
+
+  case $enableval in
+    yes)
+      :
+      ;;
+    no)
+      :
+      ;;
+    *)
+      { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: no argument expected for --enable-profiling option" >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: no argument expected for --enable-profiling option" >&2;}
+   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+else
+  enable_profiling=no
+
+fi;
+
+
+
 #
 # DTrace
 #
@@ -3149,6 +3181,22 @@ if test "$enable_debug" = yes && test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_g" = yes; then
   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
 fi
 
+# enable profiling if --enable-profiling
+if test "$enable_profiling" = yes && test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_g" = yes; then
+  if test "$GCC" = yes; then
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+#define PROFILE_PID_DIR 1
+_ACEOF
+
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pg"
+  else
+    { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: --enable-profiling is supported only when using GCC" >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: --enable-profiling is supported only when using GCC" >&2;}
+   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+  fi
+fi
+
 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: using CFLAGS=$CFLAGS" >&5
 echo "$as_me: using CFLAGS=$CFLAGS" >&6;}
 
@@ -23975,6 +24023,7 @@ s,@default_port@,$default_port,;t t
 s,@enable_shared@,$enable_shared,;t t
 s,@enable_rpath@,$enable_rpath,;t t
 s,@enable_debug@,$enable_debug,;t t
+s,@enable_profiling@,$enable_profiling,;t t
 s,@DTRACE@,$DTRACE,;t t
 s,@DTRACEFLAGS@,$DTRACEFLAGS,;t t
 s,@enable_dtrace@,$enable_dtrace,;t t
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c927bccc5db5bc22275777630b4b357a1a777305..e5d72eb1d30821ffcbe980195d5f797ca02e0b12 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-dnl $PostgreSQL: pgsql/configure.in,v 1.501 2007/02/07 00:28:54 petere Exp $
+dnl $PostgreSQL: pgsql/configure.in,v 1.502 2007/02/21 15:12:39 momjian Exp $
 dnl
 dnl Developers, please strive to achieve this order:
 dnl
@@ -205,6 +205,13 @@ PGAC_ARG_BOOL(enable, debug, no,
               [  --enable-debug          build with debugging symbols (-g)])
 AC_SUBST(enable_debug)
 
+#
+# --enable-profiling enables gcc profiling
+#
+PGAC_ARG_BOOL(enable, profiling, no,
+              [  --enable-profiling      build with profiling enabled ])
+AC_SUBST(enable_profiling)
+
 #
 # DTrace
 #
@@ -297,6 +304,17 @@ if test "$enable_debug" = yes && test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_g" = yes; then
   CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
 fi
 
+# enable profiling if --enable-profiling
+if test "$enable_profiling" = yes && test "$ac_cv_prog_cc_g" = yes; then
+  if test "$GCC" = yes; then
+    AC_DEFINE([PROFILE_PID_DIR], 1, 
+           [Define to 1 to enable profiling. (--enable-profiling)])
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -pg"
+  else
+    AC_MSG_ERROR([--enable-profiling is supported only when using GCC])
+  fi
+fi
+
 AC_MSG_NOTICE([using CFLAGS=$CFLAGS])
 
 # We already have this in Makefile.win32, but configure needs it too
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index ddd185fa42c9db0e961d78b27a66b11edcc27ee2..bc7d3aef615553d831fa48ca0189b86bd6d9fe5b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.284 2007/02/19 18:57:18 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.285 2007/02/21 15:12:39 momjian Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="installation">
  <title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -1040,6 +1040,18 @@ su - postgres
        </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+       <term><option>--enable-profiling</option></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         If using GCC, all programs and libraries are compiled so they
+         can be profiled.  On backend exit, a subdirectory will be created
+         that contains the <filename>gmon.out</> file for use in profiling.
+         This option is for use only with GCC and when doing development work.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
       <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--enable-cassert</option></term>
        <listitem>
diff --git a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c
index c779d50cf324e0d5f98dde2778897d28dfb3737c..da3eec29b4bfb6ff1091be5f8754518b4c260811 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c,v 1.95 2007/01/05 22:19:37 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/storage/ipc/ipc.c,v 1.96 2007/02/21 15:12:39 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -110,6 +110,36 @@ proc_exit(int code)
 								  on_proc_exit_list[on_proc_exit_index].arg);
 
 	elog(DEBUG3, "exit(%d)", code);
+
+#ifdef PROFILE_PID_DIR
+	{
+		/*
+		 * If we are profiling ourself then gprof's mcleanup() is about
+		 * to write out a profile to ./gmon.out.  Since mcleanup() always 
+		 * uses a fixed file name, each backend will overwrite earlier
+		 * profiles. To fix that, we create a separate subdirectory for
+		 * each backend (./gprof/pid) and 'cd' to that subdirectory before
+		 * we exit() - that forces mcleanup() to write each profile into
+		 * its own directory.  We end up with something like:
+		 *	$PGDATA/gprof/8829/gmon.out
+		 *	$PGDATA/gprof/8845/gmon.out
+		 *		...
+		 *
+		 * Note that we do this here instead of in an on_proc_exit() 
+		 * callback because we want to ensure that this code executes
+		 * last - we don't want to interfere with any other on_proc_exit()
+		 * callback.
+		 */
+		char gprofDirName[32];
+
+		snprintf(gprofDirName, 32, "gprof/%d", (int) getpid());
+	    
+		mkdir("gprof", 0777);
+		mkdir(gprofDirName, 0777);
+		chdir(gprofDirName);
+	}
+#endif
+
 	exit(code);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/include/pg_config.h.in b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
index 71b8d0e7d2e1638735a3355a223c6a35262b2379..132462ac09e1c09bc880ff8728753b1a3f0e2f1b 100644
--- a/src/include/pg_config.h.in
+++ b/src/include/pg_config.h.in
@@ -602,6 +602,9 @@
 /* A string containing the version number, platform, and C compiler */
 #undef PG_VERSION_STR
 
+/* Define to 1 to enable profiling. (--enable-profiling) */
+#undef PROFILE_PID_DIR
+
 /* Define to the necessary symbol if this constant uses a non-standard name on
    your system. */
 #undef PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE