Incomplete Explain for delete

Hello,

I ran into a slow delete issue.

The reason is explained by Tom Lane in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16186.1150464632@sss.pgh.pa.us:

> I was about to ask if you had any. Usually the reason for DELETE being
> slow is that you have foreign key references to (not from) the table and
> the referencing columns aren't indexed. This forces a seqscan search
> of the referencing table for each row deleted :-(
> regards, tom lane

Before adding an index on the referencing column, delete ran for more than
12 hours with no result. Someone finally cancelled it.
After adding the index on the referencing column, delete ran in 6 seconds.

Explain gives me the same plan and same expected cost for both cases:

Explain for slow delete > 12 hours
http://explain.depesz.com/s/v5GH

Explain for Quick delete = 6 seconds
http://explain.depesz.com/s/lN2U

So I think explain needs an improvement as it does not show the real plan
used when running the query.

Instead of displaying:
Delete on uniform (cost=0.000..4,489.270 rows=57,847 width=6)
-> Index Scan using two on uniform (cost=0.000..4,489.270 rows=57,847
width=6)
Index Cond: ((bravo)::text = 'romeo'::text)

It should display something like this
Delete on uniform (cost=0.000..4,489.270 rows=57,847 width=6)
-> Index Scan using two on uniform (cost=0.000..4,489.270 rows=57,847
width=6)
Index Cond: ((bravo)::text = 'romeo'::text)
-> Foreign Keys check
-> Index Scan using ix_ref1 on referencing1 (cost= rows= width=)
Index Cond: ...
-> ...
-> Index Scan using ix_refN on referencingN (cost= rows= width=)
Index Cond: ...

Test environnement:
- Windows 7
- PostgreSQL 9.2

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