On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:08:03PM +0200, PFC wrote:
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> >which wouldn't have helped.) If true, I can handle that parsing myself
> >easily enough without exposing RelationGetNumberOfBlocks.
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> Is there a way to get EXPLAIN results in a non-text-formatted way
> for easier use ?
> I'm asking, because it seems the feature set grows by the minute in
> posgres nowadays...
Not yet, but a friend of mine was working on a patch to make it output
in a custom XML format, to be able to create a tool similar to Redhat's
Visual Explain. I expect he will show up in pgsql-hackers sometime ...
In spanish: http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/weblog/archives/000397.html
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