On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > The other thing that was being argued was whether rules should be > changed to act that way too, and if not whether EXPLAIN ANALYZE should > be fixed to make sure it emulates rule execution better. Personally > I'd be in favor of changing rule execution and leaving EXPLAIN ANALYZE > alone, though I'm not sure if that position can command a consensus. > I seriously doubt that there are many applications out there that are > actually depending on this aspect of rule execution; if anything, there > are probably more that will see it as a bug.
Changing EXPLAIN ANALYZE seems a bit less likely to break things for anyone depending on current behavior; but, on the other hand, it seems there's a broad consensus that the best thing to do about rule execution is deprecate it, so maybe it doesn't really matter. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
