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From: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: explain_regress, explain(MACHINE), and default to explain(BUFFERS) (was: BUFFERS enabled by default in EXPLAIN (ANALYZE))
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 06:20:31 -0500
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 03:38:53PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 9:54 AM Justin Pryzby <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > Unfortunately, "COSTS OFF" breaks postgres_fdw remote_estimate.  If specifying
> > > "COSTS ON" in postgres_fdw.c is considered to be a poor fix , then I suppose
> > > this patch series could do as suggested and enable buffers by default only when
> > > ANALYZE is specified.  Then postgres_fdw is not affected, and the
> > > explain_regress GUC is optional: instead, we'd need to specify BUFFERS OFF in
> > > ~100 regression tests which use EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
> 
> I'm not following the transition from the prior sentences about COSTS to
> this one regarding BUFFERS.

In this patch, SET explain_regress=on changes to defaults to
explain(COSTS OFF), so postgres_fdw now explicitly uses COSTS ON.  The
patch also changes default to (BUFFERS OFF), which is what allows
enabling buffers by default.  I think I was just saying that the
enabling buffers by default depends on somehow disabling it in
regression tests (preferably not by adding 100 instances of "BUFFERS
OFF").

> The following change in the machine commit seems out-of-place; are we
> fixing a bug here?
> 
> explain.c:
>    /* Show buffer usage in planning */
> - if (bufusage)
> + if (bufusage && es->buffers)

I think that was an extraneous change, maybe from a conflict while
re-ordering the patches.  Removed it and rebased.  Thanks for looking.

-- 
Justin


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