Re: Rationalizing EXPLAIN VERBOSE output

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Rationalizing EXPLAIN VERBOSE output
Date: 2002-03-11 02:36:16
Message-ID: 6367.1015814176@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Seems EXPLAIN as SELECT would break our elog() control of output to the
> server logs.

EXPLAIN as SELECT would mean that the server log is out of the picture
entirely, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Is there a good reason
for logging EXPLAIN output? I can't see one other than "we've always
done it that way".

regards, tom lane

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