Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B634632BA1 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 11:21:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26542-02 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 14:21:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63286323B8 for ; Mon, 31 May 2010 11:21:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id o4VEL1q12160; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <201005311421.o4VEL1q12160@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Explain docs and the regression database In-Reply-To: <28482.1275190660@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:21:01 -0400 (EDT) CC: Greg Smith , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/68 X-Sequence-Number: 5565 Tom Lane wrote: > Greg Smith writes: > > The introduction to using EXPLAIN: > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/using-explain.html > > includes a footnote at the bottom suggesting you might follow along with > > these examples because they come from the regression test database. > > This would really be a lot more useful if it gave some sort of clue just > > how exactly a user might get that database populated with that > > regression data. > > You run the regression tests. FYI, I think you have to run 'installcheck' so the database remains after the regression tests. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com