Re: Questions about "Output" in EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE

Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>

From: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
To: Jerry Brenner <jbrenner@guidewire.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-01-02T19:15:52Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM Jerry Brenner <jbrenner@guidewire.com> wrote:

> We are currently on 13.9.
>

Why not just use the latest minor release, 13.13?  For security reasons,
that is the only minor release of v13 you should be using anyway.  I think
it is a bit much to hope that people will spend their time for free
researching obsolete minor releases.


> *Any node type accessing an index or table*
>
>    - It looks like "Output" includes more than just the columns with
>    predicates and/or being accessed or returned in other nodes.
>
> Not in my hands. For SELECTs it just lists the columns that are needed.
Your example is hard to follow because it appears to be just snippets of a
plan, with no example of the query to which it belongs.

Cheers,

Jeff