Re: machine-readable explain output - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: machine-readable explain output
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Msg-id 4A34F3D0.8080703@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: machine-readable explain output  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: machine-readable explain output  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Dave Page wrote:
>> I thing so using --with-libxml is good idea. Is nonsense repeat some
>> necessary xml code like xml escaping and similar. And almost all
>> distributed PostgreSQL binaries are compiled with xml support, so this
>> cannot do some problems. When somebody compile pg without xml support,
>> then he knows what he do.
>>     
>
> That will mean we never get to use XML explain in pgAdmin. We're not
> in the business of writing basic features that might work, if the
> postgres packager enabled an option. We need to be able to rely on
> such features always being available.
>
>   

As a matter of curiosity, do we have any idea what platforms don't 
support libxml2?

cheers

andrew




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