From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Demoting the "width" part of EXPLAIN |
Date: | 2006-05-07 16:59:33 |
Message-ID: | 20060507165933.GK99570@pervasive.com |
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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 04:03:45PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> Seeing as how width is so unused relative to the other items in the
> explain output, how about removing it from the normal explain output
> and requiring people to do an explain verbose if they really need to
> see it? It would have the virtue of shortening the explain output
> quite a bit.
The problem with that is that it's essentially impossible to obtain
information from explain verbose, and width is sometimes useful. Maybe
change existing EXPLAIN VERBOSE to EXPLAIN DEBUG?
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