Re: Understanding EXPLAIN ANALYZE output

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:38:47PM +0100, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> But I think it should be the other way round:  EXPLAIN ANALYZE should
> return its output in table form, and there should be a function to
> convert that table into what EXPLAIN ANALYZE outputs now.

I've been wondering about that. A while ago the change was made from
outputting a NOTICE with the EXPLAIN output to returning a resultset.
If you could agree on what columns to return it might not be so hard
for the EXPLAIN to return full tuples...

Backward compatability is a problem though...
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