Re: Is it possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into a table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Souvik Bhattacherjee
Subject Re: Is it possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into a table
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Msg-id CAANrPSfo5EgVpfe02eJRSXtpxUO-rMQkHNja-jFMn+52ac0RwQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Is it possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into a table  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thanks, works fine!

-Souvik

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:02 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Souvik Bhattacherjee <kivuosb@gmail.com> writes:
> I was just wondering if it is possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into
> a table.

EXPLAIN won't do that directly, but you could make a plpgsql function
along the lines of

      for t in execute explain ...
         return next t;

(too lazy to check the exact details here, but I believe you can find
related examples in our regression tests) and then store the function's
result into a table.

                        regards, tom lane

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