| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> |
|---|---|
| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Proposals for EXPLAIN: rename ANALYZE to EXECUTE and extend VERBOSE |
| Date: | 2024-11-07 06:55:24 |
| Message-ID: | 1f6e3f50-9838-409e-bccf-c089948075fa@eisentraut.org |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On 05.11.24 19:19, Robert Haas wrote:
>> 1) EXPLAIN ANALYZE Is sometimes very confusing (because there is ANALYZE). Let's rename it to EXPLAIN EXECUTE?
> The trouble is that EXPLAIN EXECUTE already means something.
>
> robert.haas=# explain execute foo;
> ERROR: prepared statement "foo" does not exist
>
> Granted, that would not make it impossible to make EXPLAIN (EXECUTE) a
> synonym for EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), but IMHO it would be pretty confusing
> if EXPLAIN EXECUTE and EXPLAIN (EXECUTE) did different things.
At some point in the past, the idea of renaming EXPLAIN ANALYZE to
PROFILE was thrown around. I still kind of like that idea. You'd have
to keep the existing syntax around, of course.
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | kasaharatt | 2024-11-07 07:00:34 | Re: Doc: typo in ddl.sgml |
| Previous Message | Peter Eisentraut | 2024-11-07 06:33:51 | Re: Pgoutput not capturing the generated columns |