Re: Explain buffers display units. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Explain buffers display units.
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Msg-id 29492.1266335650@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Explain buffers display units.  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Greg Stark escribi�:
>> Oops. Well, I would like to know if I'm in the minority and have to
>> roll this back before I fix that.

> My personal opinion is that displaying number of blocks in all EXPLAIN
> formats is more consistent.

FWIW, I vote for number of blocks too.  I tend to see those numbers as
more indicative of number of I/O requests than amount of memory used.
        regards, tom lane


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