Re: Parsing output of EXPLAIN command in PostgreSQL

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 11/10/2011 04:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Nonetheless, it's solving the wrong problem.  Any program that is being
>> written today to read EXPLAIN output should be written to read one of
>> the machine-readable formats.

> Umm, it *does* handle all the formats:

The point I'm trying to make is that translating the parts that handle
text into another language seems like wasted effort.  depesz has a
specific problem to solve, namely wanting to accept emailed input from
users who are likely to send any format; and that requires him to expend
a lot of effort that is not likely to be necessary in any other setting.
        regards, tom lane