"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes:
> Is there any place where the contents of EXPLAIN nodes are documented?

Use the source, Luke ...

In particular, src/include/nodes/plannodes.h is pretty well commented.
If it's not immediately obvious how that maps to what's shown by
EXPLAIN, look into commands/explain.c.  (There are things that aren't
mentioned by EXPLAIN even in verbose mode, such as which columns Group
is going to group by; usually that's because it's redundant with info
available elsewhere, such as the sort columns of a lower sort node.)

Keep in mind also that we reserve the right to whack these things around
in arbitrary ways from one release to the next.

                        regards, tom lane

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