Re: Proposals for EXPLAIN: rename ANALYZE to EXECUTE and extend VERBOSE

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 at 08:30, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> OK, I'm fine with this. v4 patch attached with one plan showing read, written, and dirtied buffers.

Today I spent more time polishing this patch. There were a few cases
in the docs that displayed EXPLAIN ANALYZE output that you'd not
adjusted to include the buffers output or adjusted to do BUFFERS OFF.
I think I've got all these now. Tom went to some effort to fix some
outdated EXPLAIN outputs for v17 in 5caa05749, so I think we owe it to
him not to let these go out of date so soon after that change.

I also was thinking again about what Robert mentioned about
auto_explain.log_buffers should now also be on by default.  I'm less
certain than him about this change. It seems like a separate
consideration that we could apply many of the same arguments for the
main change to.  In any case, I extracted that change from the 0001
patch and put it in a 0002 patch as it doesn't seem like something
that should be a sidenote in the commit message. I felt doing that
increases the chances that it would be overlooked in the release
notes.

I was very close to pushing 0001 today, but will hold off until
tomorrow to see if anyone has final comments.

For 0002, I'd really like to see a bit more justification for it.  For
the record, I'm not against 0002, it's just that my personal arguments
for wanting 0001 don't apply to 0002.