Re: RFC: Logging plan of the running query

On 01/07/2026 15:09, torikoshia wrote:
> Thanks for the comments!
> I will mainly consider the 3rd and 4th points.
Thanks,

I read the EXPLAIN generation part of the code. It looks good.

It prepares a clean EXPLAIN that’s good for stability and safety, because the
hardest part of the task has been correctly gathering the instrumentation for
the partially executed query: interrupting parallel workers and merging their
instrumentation is always the pain.

Also, it leaves room for extensions or future development if the user wants to
make a hard stop and take a full picture of the current state, including rows,
buffers, WAL, and whatever is possible with current instrumentation.

The only 'es→signaled' flag is an eyesore. It would be better to base the
decision on the es→analyze flag, which would break the long-standing
auto_explain rule, if I understand correctly. So, at least this flag should be
renamed to something like es→running, or es→query_in_progress.

Also, not sure I understand how this code regulates the explain format,
verbosity and other EXPLAIN settings.

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regards, Andrei Lepikhov,
pgEdge