Re: Review of: explain / allow collecting row counts without timing info

Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I suspect we will be unwilling to make such a break with the past. In
> that case, I think I prefer the originally proposed semantics, even
> though I agree they are somewhat less natural. ANALYZE is a big flag
> that means "This query will be executed, not just planned". If we are
> not going to make a major break, but only nibble around the edges,
> then I don't think we should remove the property that the query will
> be executed if and only if ANALYZE is specified.

Yeah, I think we need to preserve that property. Unexpectedly executing
a query (which may have side-effects) is a very dangerous thing. People
are used to the idea that ANALYZE == execute, and adding random other
flags that also cause execution is going to burn somebody.

regards, tom lane