Re: add queryEnv to ExplainOneQuery_hook

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tatsuro Yamada <yamada(dot)tatsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: add queryEnv to ExplainOneQuery_hook
Date: 2018-01-11 12:46:50
Message-ID: 20180111124650.GA15734@paquier.xyz
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Yeah, I think you're right. That's an oversight in 18ce3a4a.

+1.

> I'm surprised we haven't heard any complaints sooner if there are
> advisors using that hook[1] and expecting to be able to forward to
> ExplainOnePlan(), but I suppose it would nearly always works to call
> ExplainOnePlan() with NULL as queryEnv. It'd currently only be
> non-NULL for trigger functions running SQL to access transition
> tables, which is a bit obscure: you'd need to run EXPLAIN inside a
> suitable trigger function (though in future there might be more ways
> to create named tuplestore relations).

It seems to me that QueryEnv should be pushed to the hook, but only on
HEAD. You surely don't want to break people's extensions after a minor
upgrade.
--
Michael

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