V18 change on EXPLAIN ANALYZE
Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>
From: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-09-26T20:33:26Z
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Robert Hass committed ddb17e387aa28d61521227377b00f997756b8a27, which changed how EXPLAIN indicates fractional rows. That's cool but I have to see that change on sources because it's not explained on DOCs. One can understand that cost=4.36, that actual time=0.009, but what means rows=10.43 ? Costs and Time having decimals are fine but what is a row and a half ? So, I don't know exactly how to explain this change but I think it would be good to have a new paragraph on [1] and explain that now when nloops > 1, we now display two digits after the decimal point, rather than none. [1] - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/using-explain.html#USING-EXPLAIN-ANALYZE regards Marcos