Re: Disabling memory display in EXPLAIN ANALYZE

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Disabling memory display in EXPLAIN ANALYZE
Date: 2018-04-02 22:03:28
Message-ID: 20180402220328.y3fr5doyck5qtez5@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-04-02 17:01:08 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> > i.e. memory consumption differs between environments. Which isn't
> > surprising.
> >
> > I wonder if we could disable the display with a separate switch or tie
> > it to !'COSTS OFF && TIMING OFF' or such?
>
> Yeah, I agree with having these suppressed when we're running the
> regression tests. I don't particularly care for having them suppressed
> under either costs or timing off though, as those are really pretty
> specific and independnet flags.

We already put a number of loosely related things in there, so I don't
think that'd be that weird to continue along those lines.

> Perhaps what we need is a flag that says 'regression mode'...

DWIM mode? reproducible mode?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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