Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5496350C6 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:53:44 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16793-09 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:53:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14D463501F for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:53:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o0DGrVQO014396; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:53:31 -0500 (EST) To: Robert Haas cc: Jaime Casanova , decibel , psql performance list Subject: Re: [PERFORMANCE] work_mem vs temp files issue In-reply-to: <603c8f071001130824u3e0be910lfea14c3e475c8256@mail.gmail.com> References: <3073cc9b0908191745o3dc63d95q6b9308ef5bd199f2@mail.gmail.com> <603c8f071001111107v75276375g4d626dfc0efd8dc4@mail.gmail.com> <3073cc9b1001111114j7ddacd56p8966f9d61997a8b@mail.gmail.com> <3073cc9b1001111116x53427c9bm1e448128a3b4f6c6@mail.gmail.com> <18803.1263241120@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3073cc9b1001122231m1a15d187lae2a8096a813361b@mail.gmail.com> <603c8f071001130723v634cb3c3u1604ea69efb04e91@mail.gmail.com> <10990.1263397358@sss.pgh.pa.us> <603c8f071001130811g22387928g72262638532370e5@mail.gmail.com> <3073cc9b1001130814t79b313dk4377996dee0ac521@mail.gmail.com> <603c8f071001130824u3e0be910lfea14c3e475c8256@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Robert Haas message dated "Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:24:09 -0500" Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:53:31 -0500 Message-ID: <14395.1263401611@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.458 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=0.141, BAYES_00=-2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201001/257 X-Sequence-Number: 37137 Robert Haas writes: > Yeah. My question is whether it's acceptable to add an extra line to > the EXPLAIN output for every hash join, even w/o ANALYZE. We could add it if either VERBOSE or ANALYZE appears. Not sure if that's just too much concern for backwards compatibility, though. regards, tom lane