On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:17:23PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Interesting point: how should EXPLAIN ANALYZE set these bits?  For its
> > own purposes it need not request random access, but it might be
> > interesting to make it possible to examine both the random and nonrandom
> > behaviors, now that these will be significantly different performancewise.
> > Possibly we could make EXPLAIN ANALYZE EXECUTE set the random-access
> > bits.
> 
> Good point. Whichever we do will be wrong in some cases.... I've no real
> opinion on this other than a vague preference for it to be quick.

Wouldn't an EXPLAIN ANALYZE DECLARE ... have the right information to
know if backward scan, etc was needed?
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