On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 1:35 PM Alena Rybakina <a.rybak...@postgrespro.ru> wrote: > I think you are right, most users will perceive this parameter as the number > of rejected paths, and not in any other way. > > To be honest, I don't have much experience writing documentation, but I think > we should add a little more information to doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml. > > It contains a description about "explain queries", so the description of > "Disabled nodes" is available there. > > I prepared a patch that includes the information we can add.
One general thing to think about is that we really document very little about EXPLAIN. That might not be good, but we should consider whether it will look strange if we document a bunch of stuff about this and still don't talk about anything else. (This is not a comment on this specific patch, which I have not examined. It's just a general thought.) -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
