diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ca36ee2..3e37b37 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [profile.release]
-debug=true
+# Emit only the line info tables, not full debug info, in release builds, to
+# substantially reduce the size of the debug info. Line info tables are enough
+# to symbolicate a backtrace, but not enough to use a debugger interactively.
+# This seems to be the right tradeoff for release builds: it's unlikely we're
+# going to get interactive access to a debugger in production installations, but
+# we still want useful crash reports.
+debug = 1
 
 [lib]
 name         = "vrl_bridge"