Re: Get explain output of postgresql in Tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Get explain output of postgresql in Tables
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Msg-id 20060324095035.GK90527@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Get explain output of postgresql in Tables  (Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus@nttdata.co.jp>)
Responses Re: Get explain output of postgresql in Tables  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:54:09AM +0900, Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > Structure for the human-consumable output or for something that would be
> > machine-parsed? ISTM it would be best to keep the current output as-is,
> > and provide some other means for producing machine-friendly output,
> > presumably in a table format.
> 
> How about (well-formed) XML format?
> Anyone menthioned in the past threads?
> 
> I guess XML is good for the explain structure.

Unless you want to actually analyze the output in something like
plpgsql, but I can certainly see uses for both. Perhaps getting one
implimented will make it easier to implement the other.
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