On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> 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. > > Well, I'm not for changing it, but I might be in the minority. > > A more important point is that it would be a nontrivial change, both as > to code and documentation, and it's too late for such in 9.0. So what > we ought to be confining the discussion to right now is what 9.0 should > print here.
It's exactly as nontrivial as the proposed change in the other direction. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
