On Wednesday February 9 2005 8:07, Ed L. wrote: > > > > Well, I'm a little bored; I've got tomorrow off, and this > > seems like it might be doable in the kind of high-level > > PL/Foo's with which I'm familiar. What would the returning > > rowtype for > > pg_explain_analyze(TEXT) be? > > LOL. If you're serious, I was thinking of something like > this: > > node_id integer not null unique > op varchar: "Index Scan"|"Hash Join"|"Seq Scan"|... > parent_node_id integer: node_id of parent node > index varchar: name of index for scan (oid better?) > relation varchar: name of relation for scan (oid better?) > cost_first float: first cost number > cost_last float: second cost number > cost_rows bigint > cost_width integer > actual_first float: time to first row > actual_last float: time to last row > actual_rows bigint > actual_loops bigint > condition varchar: what comes after "Index Cond:"|"Hash > Cond:"|... total_time float: total query time You might drive the rowtype by what you (alias I) hope to get out of it: 1) easy discovery of the slowest parts of the query, 2) really slow avg row retrieval times (like the 4.63ms/row discussed earlier in this thread), and I don't know what else. Part 2 seems straight forward with this scheme, less sure about part 1. Ed ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx