Re: Rationalizing EXPLAIN VERBOSE output

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:52:49AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> EXPLAIN VERBOSE select * from pg_class;
> 
>     Add prettyprinted qual clauses
> 
> EXPLAIN VERBOSE VERBOSE select * from pg_class;
> 
>     Add full plan-tree dump

I'd prefer having the non-prety-printed plan-tree dump moved off into
its own keyword. Eg:

EXPLAIN DUMP select * from pg_class;

The dump is sufficiently different from VERBOSE <n> output that it
should have its own keyword. Then the VERBOSE levels can just be used
for addition additional information to the pretty-printed tree and there
is no nasty shift from nice tree to ugly mess at some level.

Liam

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