Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I support the idea in general, but I believe it should be expanded to
>> cover all cases of parameterised plan nodes. Each rescan iteration may
>> produce a different number of tuples, and rounding can obscure important
>> data.
> I agree strongly with all of this. I believe we should just implement
> what was agreed here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/21013.1243618236%40sss.pgh.pa.us
> Let's just display 2 fractional digits when nloops>1, else 0, and call it good.
Note that that formulation has nothing especially to do with
parameterized plan nodes. Any nestloop inner side would end up
getting shown with fractional rowcounts. Maybe that's fine.
I suggest that when thinking about what to change here,
you start by considering how you'd adjust the docs at
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/using-explain.html
to explain the new behavior. If you can't explain it
clearly for users, then maybe it's not such a great idea.
regards, tom lane
