Re: EXPLAIN VERBOSE with parallel Aggregate

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Yeah, I'd be happy to have more people chime in. I think your example
> is interesting, but it doesn't persuade me, because the rule has
> always been that EXPLAIN shows the output *columns*, not the output
> *rows*. The disappearance of some rows doesn't change the list of
> output columns. For scans and joins this rule is easy to apply; for
> aggregates, where many rows become one, less so. Some of the existing
> choices there are certainly arguable, like the fact that FILTER is
> shown anywhere at all, which seems like an artifact to me. But I
> think that now is not the time to rethink those decisions.

My proposed fix for this issue is attached. Review is welcome;
otherwise, I'll just commit this. The output looks like what I
suggested upthread:

rhaas=# explain verbose select count(*), corr(aid, bid) from pgbench_accounts ;
QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Finalize Aggregate (cost=742804.22..742804.23 rows=1 width=16)
Output: count(*), corr((aid)::double precision, (bid)::double precision)
-> Gather (cost=742804.00..742804.21 rows=2 width=40)
Output: (PARTIAL count(*)), (PARTIAL corr((aid)::double
precision, (bid)::double precision))
Workers Planned: 2
-> Partial Aggregate (cost=741804.00..741804.01 rows=1 width=40)
Output: PARTIAL count(*), PARTIAL corr((aid)::double
precision, (bid)::double precision)
-> Parallel Seq Scan on public.pgbench_accounts
(cost=0.00..616804.00 rows=12500000 width=8)
Output: aid, bid, abalance, filler
(9 rows)

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