Re: Hide 'Execution time' in EXPLAIN (COSTS OFF)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, ronan(at)dunklau(dot)fr, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Subject: Re: Hide 'Execution time' in EXPLAIN (COSTS OFF)
Date: 2014-10-13 17:04:45
Message-ID: 8906.1413219885@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Well. Unless I miss something it doesn't resolve the problem that
> started this thread. Namely that it's currently impossible to write
> regression using EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF. COSTS OFF). Which is
> worthwhile because it allows to tests some behaviour that's only visible
> in actually executed plans (like seing that a subtree wasn't executed).

TBH, I don't particularly care about that. A new flag for turning
"summary timing" off would answer the complaint with not too much
non-orthogonality ... but I really don't find this use case compelling
enough to justify adding a feature to EXPLAIN.

regards, tom lane

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