Re: Make EXPLAIN generate a generic plan for a parameterized query

Hi,

On 2022-10-29 10:35:26 +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 19:03 +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:08:27AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > > Here is a patch that
> > > implements it with an EXPLAIN option named GENERIC_PLAN.
> > 
> > I only have a quick look at the patch for now.  Any reason why you don't rely
> > on the existing explain_filter() function for emitting stable output (without
> > having to remove the costs)?  It would also take care of checking that it works
> > in plpgsql.
> 
> No, there is no principled reason I did it like that.  Version 2 does it like
> you suggest.

This fails to build the docs:

https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5609301511766016

[17:47:01.064] ref/explain.sgml:179: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: likeral line 179 and literal
[17:47:01.064]       ANALYZE, since a statement with unknown parameters
[17:47:01.064]                                 ^

Greetings,

Andres Freund