On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 6:04 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> writes: > > > In > > any case the current status quo is that it's built by default. I have > > used it in production, though not very often. It's easy to turn it on > > and off. > > Would any non-wizard really have a use for it? >
I've had people use it to get some insight into the operation and memory usage of Aggregate nodes, since those nodes offer nothing useful via EXPLAIN ANALYZE. It would be a shame to lose that ability on package-installed PostgreSQL unless we fix Aggregate node reporting first. Cheers, Jeff