On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> Semi-related: someone (Robert I think) recently mentioned investigating
> "vectorized" executor nodes, where multiple tuples would be processed in one
> shot. If we had that presumably the explain penalty would be a moot point.
Yeah, both Andres and I are interested in that, and I think he's
actively working on it. It would be quite neat if this had the effect
of reducing EXPLAIN ANALYZE's overhead to something trivial.
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