Re: Actual Cost

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 03:10:44PM -0800, Donald Dong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When explaining a query, I think knowing the actual rows and pages
> in addition to the operation type  (e.g seqscan) would be enough to
> calculate the actual cost. The actual cost metric could be useful
> when we want to look into how off is the planner's estimation, and
> the correlation between time and cost. Would it be a feature worth
> considering?

As someone not volunteering to do any of the work, I think it'd be a
nice thing to have.  How large an effort would you guess it would be
to build a proof of concept?

Best,
David.
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