Re: WIP: explain analyze with 'rows' but not timing

Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz>

From: Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-12-23T23:51:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dne 23.12.2011 22:37, Pavel Stehule napsal(a):
> 2011/12/23 Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Tomas Vondra<tv@fuzzy.cz>  writes:
>>> The motivation for this patch was that collection timing data often
>>> causes performance issues and in some cases it's not needed. But is this
>>> true for row counts?
>>
>> Perhaps more to the point, is there a use case for collecting timing
>> data without row counts?  I find it hard to visualize a valid reason.
>
> yes - a searching of bad prediction

But that's the purpose of collecting row counts without timing data.

TL is asking about the opposite case - collecting timing data without 
row counts. I can't imagine such use case ...

Tomas