On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Admittedly this is a bit inconvenient, but the point is that the
> functionality does exist. There is no need to have a built-in
> version of this function unless we get significant advantages
> from having it built-in, and right now I'm not seeing those.
I assume people don't want the *text* of the current output format but
the actual values in separate columns. So you could do things like
accumulate the data in a table and later use sql to search for queries
using specific indexes or where estimates are off etc.
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greg
