Re: Hide 'Execution time' in EXPLAIN (COSTS OFF)

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:03 AM, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> > Well. Unless I miss something it doesn't resolve the problem that
>> > started this thread. Namely that it's currently impossible to write
>> > regression using EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF. COSTS OFF). Which is
>> > worthwhile because it allows to tests some behaviour that's only visible
>> > in actually executed plans (like seing that a subtree wasn't executed).
>>
>> TBH, I don't particularly care about that. A new flag for turning
>> "summary timing" off would answer the complaint with not too much
>> non-orthogonality ... but I really don't find this use case compelling
>> enough to justify adding a feature to EXPLAIN.
>>
> Hmm, was my case above not compelling enough?

Apparently not to Tom, but it made sense to me. I think we should
find a way to do something about this - maybe making TIMING OFF also
suppress that info is the simplest approach.

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