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Re: compile error with -DOPTIMIZER_DEBUG

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-11-29T14:35:34Z
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> You know, the last couple of times I've touched that code, I've been
>> wondering why we bother to maintain it.  Personally I always use pprint()
>> when I'm interested in a printout of a plan tree.  Is anyone actually
>> using the printout code in allpaths.c?

> I thought OPTIMIZER_DEBUG showed us all the possible paths, not just the
> final plan.

Yeah, but we could repoint that code at pprint.

			regards, tom lane