On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> I could live with the equals signs, but the use of parentheses seems
>> weird and inconsistent with normal english usage (which permits
>> parentheses as a means of making parenthetical comments).
> But it is consistent with people seeing:
>
> Seq Scan on foo (cost=0.00..155.00 rows=10000 width=4)
>
> Which seems to be what was being emulated here. I though that was
> pretty reasonable given this is a related feature.
It's not the same at all. The essence of a parenthetical phrase is
that it can be omitted without turning what's left into nonsense - and
in fact we have COSTS OFF, which does just that. Omitting only the
parenthesized portions of the proposed output would not be sensible.
...Robert