Doc: add detail about EXPLAIN's "Disabled" property
authorDavid Rowley <[email protected]>
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:28:12 +0000 (23:28 +1300)
committerDavid Rowley <[email protected]>
Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:28:12 +0000 (23:28 +1300)
commit84b8fccbe5c21cc2a05f8cf91903cadc6ebfe680
treeb5b1f7b11d547a5826024ca1817c94943e8952a2
parent014720c6d9fb1285846f0b7cc1c80bdbe887a743
Doc: add detail about EXPLAIN's "Disabled" property

c01743aa4 and later 161320b4b adjusted the EXPLAIN output to show which
plan nodes were chosen despite being disabled by the various enable*
GUCs.  Prior to e22253467, the disabledness of a node was only evident by
a large startup cost penalty.  Since we now explicitly tag disabled nodes
with a boolean property in EXPLAIN, let's add some documentation to
provide some details about why and when disabled nodes can appear in the
plan.

Author: Laurenz Albe, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/883729e429267214753d5e438c82c73a58c3db5d[email protected]
doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml