On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 1:02 PM Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, I have a proposal, resulted from numerous communications with various folks, both very experienced and new Postgres users: > > 1) EXPLAIN ANALYZE Is sometimes very confusing (because there is ANALYZE). Let's rename it to EXPLAIN EXECUTE?
The trouble is that EXPLAIN EXECUTE already means something.
robert.haas=# explain execute foo; ERROR: prepared statement "foo" does not exist
Granted, that would not make it impossible to make EXPLAIN (EXECUTE) a synonym for EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), but IMHO it would be pretty confusing if EXPLAIN EXECUTE and EXPLAIN (EXECUTE) did different things.
> 2) VERBOSE doesn't include BUFFERS, and doesn't include SETTINGS; it might be also confusing sometimes. Let's include them so VERBOSE would be really verbose?
I agree that the naming here isn't great, but I think making the options non-orthogonal would probably be worse.
> 3) small thing about grammar: allow omitting parentheses, so EXPLAIN EXECUTE VERBOSE would work.
Perhaps surprisingly, it turns out that this is not a small change. As Tom mentions, this would have a pretty large blast radius. In fact, the reason I wrote the patch to introduce parenthesized options for EXPLAIN was precisely because the unparenthesized option syntax does not scale nicely at all.
I appreciate all yours and Tom's very quick comments here!
Item 3 is already solved, as it turned out.
Let's focus on item 2. Is it really impossible to make VERBOSE really verbose?
