Re: jit and explain nontext

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:39:11AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-11-20 17:16, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > It matters if it was planned with jit but executed without jit.
> >
> > postgres=# DEALLOCATE p; SET jit=on; SET jit_above_cost=0; prepare p as select from generate_series(1,9); explain(format yaml) execute p; SET jit=off; explain(format yaml) execute p;
> >
> > Patched shows this for both explains:
> > JIT: +
> > Functions: 3 +
> >
> > Unpatched shows only in the first case.
>
> In this context, I don't see the point of this change. If you set jit=off
> explicitly, then there is no need to clutter the EXPLAIN output with a bunch
> of zeroes about JIT.

I think the idea is that someone should be able to parse the YAML/XML/other
output by writing something like a['JIT']['Functions'] rather than something
like a.get('JIT',{}).get('Functions',0)

The standard seems to be that parameters that can change during execution
should change the *values* in the non-text output, but the *keys* should not
disappear just because (for example) parallel workers weren't available, or
someone (else) turned off jit. We had discussion about this earlier in the
year:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200728033622.GC20393@telsasoft.com

(Since it's machine-readable output, Key: 0 is Consistency and Completeness,
not Clutter.)

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Justin