Re: Buffer usage in EXPLAIN and pg_stat_statements (review)

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My (limited) experience is that it's usually better to get something
>> incremental committed, even if it's not what you really want.  You can
>> always take another crack at the remaining issues later, but if the
>> whole patch gets shot down then you are out of luck.
>
> Yeah, that makes sense. But the partial change should also be
> a "long-term solution" ;-). It is hard to determine whether
> the partial change is a good solution until the whole features
> works as expected (at least partially).

Well, that's an indication that you've chosen too small a piece.  But
I don't really believe that a change that affects only core EXPLAIN
and auto_explain is too small a piece to be independently useful.  If
it is, the whole feature is probably badly conceived in the first
place...

...Robert