On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 09:26:21AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Ashutosh Bapat (ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com) wrote: > > > We report planning and execution time when EXPLAIN ANALYZE is issued. > > > We do not have facility to report planning time as part EXPLAIN > > > output. In order to get the planning time, one has to issue EXPLAIN > > > ANALYZE which involves executing the plan, which is unnecessary. > > > > After reading that, rather long, thread, I agree that just having it be > > 'summary' is fine. We don't really want to make it based off of > > 'timing' or 'costs' or 'verbose', those are different things. > > I'm wondering, why is 'timing' (in the EXPLAIN scope) a different thing > to planning time? It might be that people don't expect it at this point > and external tools might break (dunno), but in oder to print the > planning time, 'timing' sounds clearer than 'summary' to me.
OK, after also rereading the thread, this indeed seems to be very complicated, and I don't want to reopen this can of worms, sorry. Michael -- Michael Banck Projektleiter / Senior Berater Tel.: +49 2166 9901-171 Fax: +49 2166 9901-100 Email: michael.ba...@credativ.de credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 USt-ID-Nummer: DE204566209 Trompeterallee 108, 41189 Mönchengladbach Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz, Sascha Heuer -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers