Re: New EXPLAIN option: ALL

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:32:21PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:53 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > >> That seems too confusing.
> >
> > > Ok. Are you voting for using EXEC as a keyword to replace ANALYZE?
> >
> > FWIW, given the conflict against "EXPLAIN EXECUTE prepared_stmt_name",
> > we should probably just drop the whole idea. It seemed like a great
> > idea at the time, but it's going to confuse people not just Bison.
>
> +1. I think trying to replace ANALYZE with something else is setting
> ourselves up for years, possibly decades, worth of confusion. And
> without any real benefit.
>
> Defaulting BUFFERS to ON is probably a reasonable change, thuogh.

Would this be worth back-patching? I ask because adding it will cause
fairly large (if mechanical) churn in the regression tests.

Best,
David.
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