Re: track generic and custom plans in pg_stat_statements

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik(at)postgres(dot)ai>, Ilia Evdokimov <ilya(dot)evdokimov(at)tantorlabs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: track generic and custom plans in pg_stat_statements
Date: 2025-07-25 16:51:12
Message-ID: 1933906.1753462272@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Perhaps CachedPlanType is
>> misnamed, though, would it be more suited to name that as a sort of
>> "origin" or "source" field concept? We want to know which which
>> source we have retrieved a plan that a PlannedStmt refers to.

> Hmm, I’m not sure I see this as an improvement. In my opinion,
> CachedPlanType is a clear name that describes its purpose.

I think Michael's got a point. As of HEAD there are seven different
places that are setting this to PLAN_CACHE_NONE; who's to say that
pg_stat_statements or some other extension might not wish to
distinguish some of those sources? At the very least, user-submitted
versus internally-generated queries might be an interesting
distinction. I don't have a concrete proposal for a different
categorization than what we've got, but it seems worth considering
while we still have the flexibility to change it easily.

regards, tom lane

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