Re: Proposals for EXPLAIN: rename ANALYZE to EXECUTE and extend VERBOSE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Proposals for EXPLAIN: rename ANALYZE to EXECUTE and extend VERBOSE
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Msg-id 3076356.1730831425@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Proposals for EXPLAIN: rename ANALYZE to EXECUTE and extend VERBOSE  (Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>)
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Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com> writes:
> Let's focus on item 2. Is it really impossible to make VERBOSE really
> verbose?

It's obviously not "impossible" -- the code changes would likely be
trivial.  The question is whether it's a good idea.  These semantics
were (I presume) deliberately chosen when the options were added,
so somebody thought not.  You would need to go back and review the
relevant mail thread and then make arguments why that decision
was wrong.

In short: we're not working in a green field here, and all these
decisions have history.  You will not get far by just popping
up and saying "I think it should be different".  You need to make
a case why the decision was wrong, and why it was so wrong that
we should risk cross-version-compatibility problems by changing.

            regards, tom lane



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