Re: New EXPLAIN option: ALL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: New EXPLAIN option: ALL
Date
Msg-id 20190515162617.bu2fgroufcxaup53@alap3.anarazel.de
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: New EXPLAIN option: ALL  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: New EXPLAIN option: ALL  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-05-15 11:05:31 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> After eyeballing the giant patch set you sent[1], I think EXEC is a
> horrible keyword to use -- IMO it should either be the complete word
> EXECUTE, or we should pick some other word.  I realize that we do not
> want to have different sets of keywords when using the legacy syntax (no
> parens) vs.  new-style (with parens), but maybe we should just not
> support the EXECUTE keyword in the legacy syntax; there's already a
> number of options we don't support in the legacy syntax (BUFFERS,
> TIMING), so this isn't much of a stretch.

That seems too confusing.


> [1] I think if you just leave out the GUC print from the changes, it
> becomes a reasonable patch series.

Yea, it really should be small incremental changes instead of proposals
to "just change everything".

Greetings,

Andres Freund



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Subject: Re: error messages in extended statistics
Next
From: Tomas Vondra
Date:
Subject: Re: error messages in extended statistics