Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 1) EXPLAIN ANALYZE Is sometimes very confusing (because there is ANALYZE).
> Let's rename it to EXPLAIN EXECUTE?
This has got far too many years of history to be renamed now.
> 2) VERBOSE doesn't include BUFFERS, and doesn't include SETTINGS; it might
> be also confusing sometimes. Let's include them so VERBOSE would be really
> verbose?
This is not likely to fly for compatibility reasons.
> 3) small thing about grammar: allow omitting parentheses, so EXPLAIN
> EXECUTE VERBOSE would work.
The reason for the parens is that the other way would require reserving
all these options as keywords.
regards, tom lane