Re: show Heap Fetches in EXPLAIN for index-only scans

On 13 January 2012 15:31, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> Would also be good to have counter sin pg_stat_* for this, since you'd
>> usually want to look at this kind of data over time as well. In your
>> plans? ;)
>
> Not really.  I don't have a clear enough idea about what that should
> look like, and I expect a vigorous debate over the distributed cost of
> another counter.  But I'm happy to have someone who feels more
> strongly about it than I do take up the cause.

Maybe the the ioss_HeapFetches field should be a uint32? That's all
it's going to be on some platforms anyway.

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