Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I had an idea at one point of making explain show the planned and > actual # of batches for each hash join. I believe that "actual # of > batches > 1" is isomorphic to "hash join went to disk". The code is > actually pretty easy; the hard part is figuring out what to do about > the UI. The choices seem to be: > 1. Create a new EXPLAIN option just for this - what would we call it? > 2. Think of some more, similar things and come up with a new EXPLAIN > option covering all of them - what else would go along with? > 3. Sandwhich it into an existing EXPLAIN option, most likely VERBOSE. > 4. Display it by default. Treat it the same as the Sort-node actual usage information. We did not add a special option when we added that. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance