Re: Disabling memory display in EXPLAIN ANALYZE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Disabling memory display in EXPLAIN ANALYZE
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Msg-id 20180402220328.y3fr5doyck5qtez5@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Disabling memory display in EXPLAIN ANALYZE  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Hi,

On 2018-04-02 17:01:08 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> > i.e. memory consumption differs between environments. Which isn't
> > surprising.
> > 
> > I wonder if we could disable the display with a separate switch or tie
> > it to !'COSTS OFF && TIMING OFF' or such?
> 
> Yeah, I agree with having these suppressed when we're running the
> regression tests.  I don't particularly care for having them suppressed
> under either costs or timing off though, as those are really pretty
> specific and independnet flags.

We already put a number of loosely related things in there, so I don't
think that'd be that weird to continue along those lines.


> Perhaps what we need is a flag that says 'regression mode'...

DWIM mode? reproducible mode?

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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