On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >>> I'd prefer to have the average; it's very confusing to have an explain >>> row which has the cost per iteration, but the buffer usage per node. > >> The cost per iteration thing is IMO one of the most confusing parts of >> the EXPLAIN output; I'm not really eager to see us replicate that >> elsewhere. > > Well, if you want to put forward a proposal to get rid of that approach > entirely, go ahead. But it doesn't seem like a good idea to me for > EXPLAIN to print some numbers according to one viewpoint and some > according to the other.
Well, if I propose that we just abandon that approach and print only totals for everything, is that DOA? I think it would be a major improvement, but it will break backward compatibility. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
