On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > I was thinking about the name of our new PG 18 pg_overexplain extension. > > "Over-explain" has a negative connotation, like how can over-explaining > > something be useful? > > Over-explaining something can be somewhat useful if the person doing > the explaining doesn't exactly know which parts are relevant ahead of > time. If that person tells you everything that they know, you have > some chance of figuring out which parts are truly relevant. > > "Over-explain" does have a slightly negative connotation, but I don't > find that inappropriate. > > > Do we want that as the name of this new extension? > > Personally, I think it's fine. We ought to discourage the idea that > this is just "explain, but better". > If this does invoke a bit of a shock response I too believe that to be a benefit. pg_allthethingyouwantedtoknowaboutyourquerybutwereafraidtoask would be my backup option. David J.
