On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> If we have promised that, I think we should break the promise. No
> application should depend on the details of EXPLAIN output, even if it's in
> JSON/YAML/XML format. EXPLAIN is used by humans, and by tools like pgAdmin
> that display the output for humans, so let's do what makes most sense for
> humans. Admin tools will have to deal with new node types, and also new plan
> structures in every new release anyway. And if an admin tool doesn't
> recognize the new format, it surely falls back to displaying them in some a
> reasonable generic form.
+1
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Peter Geoghegan
