Improve output of BitmapAnd EXPLAIN ANALYZE

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Improve output of BitmapAnd EXPLAIN ANALYZE
Date: 2016-10-20 20:24:20
Message-ID: 499ac0ee-e515-5c65-55c2-56cfc204d52e@BlueTreble.com
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A customer just pinged me wondering how it was that a BitmapAnd node was
reporting 0 tuples when the Bitmap Heap Scan above it showed it had in
fact generated tuples.

While this is mentioned in the docs, I think it would be very helpful to
have ANALYZE spit out "N/A" instead of 0 for these nodes. AFAICT that
would just require adding a special case to the "if (es->costs)" block
at line ~1204 in explain.c?

BTW, it looks like it would actually be possible to return a real
row-count if none of the TIDBitmap pages are chunks, but I'm not sure if
it's worth the extra effort.
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