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Subject: Re: Default gucs for EXPLAIN
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas () gmail ! com>
Date: 2020-05-29 19:44:29
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYH_p-y=45SAJ58cU6jsMH6ojgqQZiA2aePpvZ0J+uLbA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 7:30 AM David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm against adding GUCs to control what EXPLAIN does by default.
>
> A few current GUCs come to mind which gives external control to a
> command's behaviour are:
>
> standard_conforming_strings
> backslash_quote
> bytea_output
>
> It's pretty difficult for application authors to write code that will
> just work due to these GUCs. We end up with GUCs like
> escape_string_warning to try and help application authors find areas
> which may be problematic.
I agree with this concern, as well as with what David says later,
namely that the concern is less here than in some other cases but
still not zero.
I do think the idea of changing the default for BUFFERS from OFF to ON
is a pretty good one, though.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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