Re: [HACKERS] Demoting the width part of EXPLAIN

2006-05-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 04:03:45PM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Seeing as how width is so unused relative to the other items in the explain output, how about removing it from the normal explain output and requiring people to do an explain verbose if they really need to see it? It would

Re: [HACKERS] Demoting the width part of EXPLAIN

2006-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seeing as how width is so unused relative to the other items in the explain output, Huh? It's a critical part of the cost calculations for some things (eg, sort and hash operations). regards, tom lane