Re: Patch: add timing of buffer I/O requests

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I've committed the core of this.  I left out the stats collector
> stuff, because it's still per-table and I think perhaps we should back
> off to just per-database.  I changed it so that it does not conflate
> wait time with I/O time.  Maybe there should be a separate method of
> measuring wait time, but I don't think it's a good idea for the
> per-backend stats to measure a different thing than what gets reported
> up to the stats collector - we should have ONE definition of each
> counter.  I also tweaked the EXPLAIN output format a bit, and the
> docs.

Maybe I missed some earlier discussoin -- I've been having trouble
keeping up with the lists.

But was there discussion of why this is a GUC? Why not just another
parameter to EXPLAIN like the others?
i.e. EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS, IOTIMING)

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