On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>> Should I add countBufferUsage boolean arguments to all places
>> doInstrument booleans are currently used? This requires several
>> minor modifications of codes in many places.
>
> Pushing extra arguments around would create overhead of its own ...
> overhead that would be paid even when not using EXPLAIN at all.
Well, I think we need to do something. I don't really want to tack
another 5-6% overhead onto EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Maybe we could recast the
doInstrument argument as a set of OR'd flags?
...Robert
