"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On the other hand, we don't have to
>> think of compatibility in EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE because it is newly
>> added in 8.4.
> Uh, it exists for me in 8.2.9.
EXPLAIN VERBOSE has existed at least back to 7.0, probably further.
However, we've felt free to whack around what it outputs, so maybe
the backwards-compatibility issue isn't very strong.
A possibly stronger complaint is that ANALYZE and VERBOSE have always
been orthogonal options to EXPLAIN, and now there'd be some interaction
between them.
regards, tom lane