=?UTF-8?B?Sm9zZWYgxaBpbcOhbmVr?= <josef.sima...@gmail.com> writes:
> Recently I got few times into situation where I was trying to find out what
> is blocking DELETE queries. Running EXPLAIN (even VERBOSE one) wasn't
> useful, since the reason was slow trigger (missing index on foreign key
> column). I had to create testing entry and run EXPLAIN ANALYZE DELETE to
> get this information.
> It will be really valuable for me to show triggers in EXPLAIN query since
> it will make clear for me there will be any trigger "activated" during
> execution of DELETE query and that can be the reason for slow DELETE.
I don't really see the point of this patch? You do get the trigger
times during EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and I don't believe that a plain EXPLAIN
is going to have full information about what triggers might fire or
not fire.
regards, tom lane
