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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Proposals for EXPLAIN: rename ANALYZE to EXECUTE and extend VERBOSE
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 07:55:24 +0100
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On 05.11.24 19:19, Robert Haas wrote:
>> 1) EXPLAIN ANALYZE Is sometimes very confusing (because there is ANALYZE). Let's rename it to EXPLAIN EXECUTE?
> The trouble is that EXPLAIN EXECUTE already means something.
> 
> robert.haas=# explain execute foo;
> ERROR:  prepared statement "foo" does not exist
> 
> Granted, that would not make it impossible to make EXPLAIN (EXECUTE) a
> synonym for EXPLAIN (ANALYZE), but IMHO it would be pretty confusing
> if EXPLAIN EXECUTE and EXPLAIN (EXECUTE) did different things.

At some point in the past, the idea of renaming EXPLAIN ANALYZE to 
PROFILE was thrown around.  I still kind of like that idea.  You'd have 
to keep the existing syntax around, of course.

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