On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:14 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Now that we can generate EXPLAIN output in more structured formats,
> perhaps we could think about adding an "extremely verbose" mode where
> the planner would "think out loud" as a whole separate section from
> where we show the chosen plan?
Tom Raney did that a while back:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-07/msg00011.php
He also had an accompanying visual tool to navigate the output in a
meaningful way.
If he has moved on to other projects, it would be great if someone could
pick it up.
Regards,Jeff Davis