Re: [HACKERS] generic options for explain

2009-05-25 Thread Tom Raney
A GUC parameter could govern the data included in this variant of EXPLAIN, but even that seems unnecessary. This approach will allow the standard EXPLAIN to evolve in whatever way pleases the humans without interfering with the machines. Regards, Tom Raney -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Planner question

2008-09-10 Thread Tom Raney
Tom Lane wrote: Tom Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why does the index scan for tenk1 include a path key from onek.unique2? Is it implying an equivalence there? bench=# explain select * from tenk1 JOIN onek ON tenk1.unique2=onek.unique2; Yes, for an example like that the planner

Re: [HACKERS] Planner question

2008-09-10 Thread Tom Raney
Tom Lane wrote: Tom Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why does the planner consider both input variations of each symmetric merge join? The README says "there is not a lot of difference" between the two options. When are there any differences? The righthand side needs

[HACKERS] Planner question

2008-09-05 Thread Tom Raney
Why does the planner consider both input variations of each symmetric merge join? The README says "there is not a lot of difference" between the two options. When are there any differences? -Tom Raney -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] Explain XML patch submitted

2008-08-15 Thread Tom Raney
27;ve been working on. I haven't had time to revisit this initial work. -Tom Raney --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted a patch addressing the TODO item: "Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily

[HACKERS] Planner question

2008-08-12 Thread Tom Raney
nt. I don't want to modify the planner() entry function parameter list, unless absolutely necessary. I currently compile with DEBUG_OPTIMIZER - and that is one option - to conditionally compile this functionality, but it would be great if this could run on a lean production system. -Tom Ra

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Explain XML patch v2

2008-07-04 Thread Tom Raney
le with libxml? Are there any lighter weight solutions to serialize other than libxml? -Tom Raney -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Plan targetlists in EXPLAIN output

2008-06-19 Thread Tom Raney
s first EXPLAIN XML concept may have some use. Are there any strong opinions about the XML hierarchy? Is it enough to simply wrap the text output from EXPLAIN with XML tags? -Tom Raney QUERY PLAN --- ]>

[HACKERS] Planner/optimizer tool

2008-03-26 Thread Tom Raney
hich could be a good first step for this project. Is anyone working on a related project? -Tom Raney -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Raney
ions, overflows occur more frequently. I spoke with Neil Conway yesterday at the PG conference here in Portland and he piqued my interest in examining his hash code more closely to see what he has already done in this area. -Tom Cheers, Ken On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0700,

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-25 Thread Tom Raney
Kenneth Marshall wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:35:47PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: "Kenneth Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:12:45PM -0700, Tom Raney wrote: Using our implementation, build times and index sizes are compa

Re: [HACKERS] Hash index todo list item

2007-09-20 Thread Tom Raney
, showing a comparative analysis of btree and hash index builds and describing the benchmark data. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~raneyt/pg/ We are currently cleaning up the patch and will submit it asap. Regards, Shreya Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenneth Ma