From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org> |
Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Default gucs for EXPLAIN |
Date: | 2020-06-02 20:51:16 |
Message-ID: | 20200602205115.GA27052@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 09:29:09PM +0200, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 6/2/20 7:25 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Vik Fearing wrote:
> >> On 5/27/20 7:27 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> >>>> Would you propose we just error out in that case, or should we
> >>>> silently enable the required option, or disable the conflicting
> >>>> option?
> >>>>
> >>> The same thing we do today...ignore options that require analyze if analyze
> >>> is not specified. There are no other options documented that are dependent
> >>> with options besides than analyze. The docs say timing defaults to on, its
> >>> only when explicitly specified instead of being treated as a default that
> >>> the user message appears. All the GUCs are doing is changing the default.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, the patch handles this case the way you describe. In fact, the
> >> patch doesn't (or shouldn't) change any behavior at all.
> >
> > I think it would have been helpful if an email explaining this idea for
> > discussion would have been posted before a patch was generated and
> > posted.
>
> Why?
Because you often have to go backwards to religitate things in the
patch, rather than opening with the design issues. Our TODO list is
very clear about this:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo
Desirability -> Design -> Implement -> Test -> Review -> Commit
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> https://momjian.us
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