Re: Actual Cost

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Donald Dong <xdong(at)csumb(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Actual Cost
Date: 2019-02-17 02:40:05
Message-ID: 20190217024004.GX10435@fetter.org
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 03:10:44PM -0800, Donald Dong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When explaining a query, I think knowing the actual rows and pages
> in addition to the operation type (e.g seqscan) would be enough to
> calculate the actual cost. The actual cost metric could be useful
> when we want to look into how off is the planner's estimation, and
> the correlation between time and cost. Would it be a feature worth
> considering?

As someone not volunteering to do any of the work, I think it'd be a
nice thing to have. How large an effort would you guess it would be
to build a proof of concept?

Best,
David.
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