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

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "<pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, twraney(at)comcast(dot)net
Subject: Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch
Date: 2010-02-10 18:57:13
Message-ID: 603c8f071002101057j7e49df87m355ee1074384ef2a@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> > Is Redhat's Visual Explain still alive?  And what about Tom Raney's stuff?
>>
>> The core of Tom Raney's work was not so much the EXPLAIN format per se
>> (which is really mooted by the changes already made in CVS) but the
>> ability to get information about plans the planner considered and
>> discarded.  I am not sure whether the latter is something we want to
>> accept into core (not for 9.0 at any rate, I would think).
>
> I was thinking in his visual stuff ... didn't he also wrote a tool to
> visualize plans?

Yeah, but again, that was to see all the other things that were
considered at any given node, not just to see the actual plan.

...Robert

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