Re: Planning time in explain/explain analyze

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Planning time in explain/explain analyze
Date: 2014-01-27 17:35:06
Message-ID: 52E698CA.8070706@proxel.se
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On 01/13/2014 09:48 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> What I'm saying is that if EXPLAIN reports something that's labelled
> "Planning Time", it should *be* the planning time, and not anything
> else. When we retrieve a plan from cache, it would be sensible not to
> report the planning time at all, and IMHO it would also be sensible to
> report the time it actually took to plan whenever we originally did
> it. But reporting a value that is not the planning time and calling
> it the planning time does not seem like a good idea to me.

Here is a patch which only prints when "Planning time" when a prepared
statment actually planned a query. I do not really like how I check for
if it was replanned, but I tried to avoid making changes in plancache.c.

Does this idea look ok?

--
Andreas Karlsson

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