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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Lukas Fittl <[email protected]>
Cc: Matheus Alcantara <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add custom EXPLAIN options support to auto_explain
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 15:30:49 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM Lukas Fittl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Per src/backend/utils/misc/README, "extra is initialized to NULL
> before call, so it can be ignored if not needed." - so we don't have
> to set extra here.

Fair enough, but it's not an uncommon practice. See, e.g.
check_synchronous_standby_names(), check_backtrace_functions().

> You note in a separate comment that we're using a subset of the main
> parser, but maybe its worth calling out integer values in particular,
> since things like "100_000" are not supported (since we're not using
> pg_strtoint64_safe + deal with the complexity of that in the scanning
> logic). I think this could be a code comment for now.

OK, done.

> I think this function probably has the most complexity due to its
> hand-rolled parsing, so it might be good if someone else takes another
> close look at it.

Agreed, but I've committed this for now. If someone finds a problem
later, it can be revised or reverted.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com





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