* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > This isn't terribly compelling in this example, of course, but > it gets a lot more important when you've got a dozen of 'em.
Exactly. > >From the perspective of the backend this is a simple and cheap change. Awesome. > I think the objection that is most likely to be raised is that it would > confuse or break programs that analyze EXPLAIN output in any degree of > detail. Of course such programs are going to need some work for 8.4 > already. I definitely feel that it would be best to make this change now, when we're introducing CTE as a type that anything doing EXPLAIN would need to deal with at some level anyway than to add it later (eg: 8.5). I'm definitely a +1 on this. Thanks! Stephen
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