Re: EXPLAIN VERBOSE vs resjunk output columns

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: EXPLAIN VERBOSE vs resjunk output columns
Date: 2009-08-22 00:53:05
Message-ID: 20090822005305.GW23840@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Currently, explain.c goes out of its way to not print "resjunk" output
> columns (those not meant to be seen by the user, such as hidden sort key
> columns) in EXPLAIN VERBOSE targetlists. I made 8.4 act that way for
> reasons I don't recall at the moment, but I've found several times now
> that it's misleading. Would anybody complain about including those
> columns?

+1 to include them.

Thanks,

Stephen

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