On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do have a longer term issue that there is no information provided by > > EXPLAIN to allow us to differentiate these two conditions. > > Sure there is: the new startup condition affects the estimated plan > startup cost (only) and the existing termination condition affects the > estimated total cost (only).
I think we all accept that you're the master here. The question is how will we know to report problems to you? If we all get used to the idea that sometimes the numbers vary, then we're in the situation where we have to say to people "its magic". That destroys any feedback loop you have for problem reporting and then you get out of touch with what is happening on the ground. It's a long term issue, so I have no complaints about what you've done, its just something to think about. I've been exactly here before in one of my past lives and I don't want to reinvent that particular wheel. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
