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From: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Lukas Fittl <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Smith <[email protected]>
Cc: Zsolt Parragi <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Stack-based tracking of per-node WAL/buffer usage
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 00:09:53 -0400
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Hi,

On 2026-04-07 15:27:45 -0700, Lukas Fittl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 3:19 PM Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think renaming makes sense - both to make sure extensions reconsider
> how they use it, and because "totaltime" is a bad name anyway, because
> its not just about timing (and hasn't been for many releases).
> 
> "query_instr[_options]" seems reasonable to me, although we could drop
> the "query_" since it'd be "queryDesc->query_instr" vs
> "queryDesc->instr".

Done that way.

I earlier pushed 0002 too.


> > Kinda wonder about having
> >   EXPLAIN (ANALYZE BUFFERS totals_only, WAL totals_only) ...;
> >
> > in plenty cases that'd be all one needs, at substantially lower cost.
> 
> True. I don't like the name "totals_only", but I like the concept.

I spent all of three seconds coming up with it... :)


> Today someone has to go to pg_stat_statements to get just the total
> numbers, without running them for all nodes with EXPLAIN ANALYZE (and
> incurring its overhead).

Yep.

Greetings,

Andres Freund





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