Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm afraid that the goals of this patch might be similarly obsolete.
> No, I don't think so. IIUC, the problem is that EXPLAIN ANALYZE runs
> the rewrite products with different snapshot handling than the regular
> execution path.
Possibly, but it's not clear to me that this patch fixes that.
As I said, it's no longer obvious what the patch means to do, and I'd
like a clear statement of that.
> So in theory you could turn on auto_explain and have
> the semantics of your queries change. That would be Bad.
That's just FUD. auto_explain doesn't run EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
regards, tom lane
