Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Well, if you want to put forward a proposal to get rid of that approach
>> entirely, go ahead. But it doesn't seem like a good idea to me for
>> EXPLAIN to print some numbers according to one viewpoint and some
>> according to the other.

> Well, if I propose that we just abandon that approach and print only
> totals for everything, is that DOA? I think it would be a major
> improvement, but it will break backward compatibility.

Well, I'm not for changing it, but I might be in the minority.

A more important point is that it would be a nontrivial change, both as
to code and documentation, and it's too late for such in 9.0. So what
we ought to be confining the discussion to right now is what 9.0 should
print here.

regards, tom lane