Tag: settings

Display “settings” from plans on explain.depesz.com

Some time ago I wrote about new options for explains – one that prints settings that were modified from default.

This looks like this:

Aggregate  (cost=35.36..35.37 rows=1 width=8)
  ->  Index Only Scan using pg_class_oid_index on pg_class  (cost=0.27..34.29 rows=429 width=0)
Settings: enable_seqscan = 'off'

Finally, today, I pushed a change that displays them on explain.depesz.com. To make it more usable, it will also provide links to documentation about each such options.

For example, check this plan.

Hope you'll find it useful.

Waiting for PostgreSQL 12 – Add SETTINGS option to EXPLAIN, to print modified settings.

On 3rd of April 2019, Tomas Vondra committed patch:

Add SETTINGS option to EXPLAIN, to print modified settings.
 
 
Query planning is affected by a number of configuration options, and it
may be crucial to know which of those options were set to non-default
values.  With this patch you can say EXPLAIN (SETTINGS ON) to include
that information in the query plan.  Only options affecting planning,
with values different from the built-in default are printed.
 
This patch also adds auto_explain.log_settings option, providing the
same capability in auto_explain module.
 
Author: Tomas Vondra
 
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e1791b4c-df9c-be02-edc5-7c8874944be0@2ndquadrant.com

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Waiting for 9.4 – Add ALTER SYSTEM command to edit the server configuration file.

On 18th of December, Tatsuo Ishii committed patch:

Add ALTER SYSTEM command to edit the server configuration file.
 
Patch contributed by Amit Kapila. Reviewed by Hari Babu, Masao Fujii,
Boszormenyi Zoltan, Andres Freund, Greg Smith and others.

On the next day, Fujii Masao committed patch:

Add tab completion for ALTER SYSTEM SET in psql.

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