Re: Instability of partition_prune regression test results

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:59 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Amit Langote <amitlangote09(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 7:25 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I experimented with adjusting explain_parallel_append() to filter
> >> more fields, but soon realized that we'd have to filter out basically
> >> everything that makes it useful to run EXPLAIN ANALYZE at all.
> >> Therefore, I think it's time to give up this testing methodology
> >> as a bad idea, and fall back to the time-honored way of running a
> >> plain EXPLAIN and then the actual query, as per the attached patch.
>
> > Isn't the point of using ANALYZE here to show that the exec-param
> > based run-time pruning is working (those "never executed" strings)?
>
> Hm. Well, if you want to see those, we could do it as attached.

Perfect, thanks.

Regards,
Amit