Re: Add ALL_CANDIDATES option to EXPLAIN

2024-07-29 Thread Ashutosh Bapat
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:47 PM Robert Haas wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM Anthonin Bonnefoy > wrote: > > I have a prototype for an ALL_CANDIDATES option for EXPLAIN. The goal > > of this option is to print all plan candidates instead of only the > > cheapest plan. It will output th

Re: Add ALL_CANDIDATES option to EXPLAIN

2024-07-26 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 1:40 PM Tom Lane wrote: > I wonder how far you'd get by just printing the surviving paths > (that is, something like Anthonin's patch, but without lobotomizing > add_path). The survivors would have to dominate the cheapest-total > path along one of the other metrics add_pa

Re: Add ALL_CANDIDATES option to EXPLAIN

2024-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > I've thought about trying to figure out some way of identifying and > printing out plans that are "interestingly different" from the chosen > plan, with the costs they would have had, but I haven't been able to > come up with a good algorithm. I wonder how far you'd get by j

Re: Add ALL_CANDIDATES option to EXPLAIN

2024-07-26 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM Anthonin Bonnefoy wrote: > I have a prototype for an ALL_CANDIDATES option for EXPLAIN. The goal > of this option is to print all plan candidates instead of only the > cheapest plan. It will output the plans from the most expensive at the > top to the cheapest. Her

Re: Add ALL_CANDIDATES option to EXPLAIN

2024-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Anthonin Bonnefoy writes: > I have a prototype for an ALL_CANDIDATES option for EXPLAIN. The goal > of this option is to print all plan candidates instead of only the > cheapest plan. It will output the plans from the most expensive at the > top to the cheapest. This doesn't seem feasible at all