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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Tom Haddon <tom.haddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 21:04 +1200, Robert Collins wrote:
> [...]
>> I helped wgrant out with some explain analyzes - it seems to me it
>> might be nice - handwaving - to permit explain-analyze calls by any
>> developer, but perhaps thats just insanity at this hour of the night
>> kicking in:)
>
> We'd really like to push fairly hard against this one. EXPLAIN ANALYZE
> actually runs the query against the DB, so it has the potential to cause
> performance problems if it's a badly constructed query, apart from
> anything else.

Hell yeah. I was thinking *staging* only. Yes there can be performance
issues, but thats rather the point :)

-Rob