Re: BUG #17238: Link to "Using EXPLAIN" in the "EXPLAIN" documentation

From: "Euler Taveira" <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #17238: Link to "Using EXPLAIN" in the "EXPLAIN" documentation
Date: 2021-10-21 19:46:19
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2021, at 1:33 PM, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> "Explain" documentation:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-explain.html
> "Using EXPLAIN" documentation:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/using-explain.html
>
> The "Explain" documentation does not have a link to "Using EXPLAIN" anywhere
> in its documentation. These are highly related, and likely an interesting
> followup topic for anyone reading the former. Therefore, I think the explain
> documentation should link to the "Using EXPLAIN" documentation -- maybe as a
> "to learn more..." link.
You didn't read it carefully. In the Outputs Section there is a link to section
14.1 that is exactly the "Using Explain" that you mentioned.

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Euler Taveira
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