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Subject: Re: BUG #18576: Using EXPLAIN (VERBOSE) in
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Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> writes:
> Agreed.  Do you think it would be helpful to add some assertions to
> verify the plan type?

I thought about that but didn't experiment with it.  I wonder whether
it'd just make the code more fragile.  Still, it might be useful to
verify that things are happening as we expect.

			regards, tom lane