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

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