Hi hackers,
I wanted to hook into the EXPLAIN output for queries and add some extra information, but since there is no standard_ExplainOneQuery() I had to copy the code and create my own version.
Since the pattern with other hooks for a function WhateverFunction() seems to be that there is a standard_WhateverFunction() for each WhateverFunction_hook, I created a patch to follow this pattern for your consideration.
I was also considering adding a callback so that you can annotate any node with explanatory information that is not a custom scan node. This could be used to propagate and summarize information from custom scan nodes, but I had no immediate use for that so did not add it here. I would still be interested in hearing if you think this is something that would be useful to the community.
Best wishes,
Mats Kindahl, Timescale
