Re: [HACKERS] EXPLAIN doesn't explain operations on inheritance trees

> If I create a class A and make subclasses A1 and A2, then
> I get useful explanations when I say "EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM A1 ..."
> but not if I ask about a query on the inheritance tree A*.
>
> tgl=> EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM A* WHERE accountid = 3;
> NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
>
> Append  (cost=0.00 size=0 width=0)
>
> EXPLAIN
>
> With "explain verbose" it is possible to see that the APPEND plan
> has substructure, but it's hard to see what's going on in that format.
> How come plain "explain" doesn't show the subnodes of an APPEND plan?

I have just applied a patch to fix this.  Append is an unusual node,
because instead of checking left/right plans, you have to loop through a
list of plans.  EXPLAIN did not do this, nor did cost computations and
pprint().

Should be better now.

I renamed all the Append structure names because they were very
confusing to me.  I had created some of them for UNION, but named the
badly.

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