Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> What it's sounding like is that we ought to have a plug-in (both for
> postmaster and for psql) which allows the calling of an external library
> to parse explain output. Then people could covert XML/JSON into
> whatever they wanted.
>
>
>
Not everything is sanely convertible into some sort of plugin. A plugin
mechanism for this would be FAR more trouble that it is worth, IMNSHO.
We are massively over-egging this pudding (as a culinary blogger you
should appreciate this analogy).
cheers
andrew
