Horton
Menu

Re: Explain buffers display units.

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

View thread
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-16T15:54:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Greg Stark escribi:
>> Oops. Well, I would like to know if I'm in the minority and have to
>> roll this back before I fix that.

> My personal opinion is that displaying number of blocks in all EXPLAIN
> formats is more consistent.

FWIW, I vote for number of blocks too.  I tend to see those numbers as
more indicative of number of I/O requests than amount of memory used.

			regards, tom lane