Re: Explain XML patch v2

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:57:29PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> It would also be interesting if EXPLAIN could optionally be a
> function that returns a datum of type XML, to allow further
> processing.

It would be better to have a function which allows people to plug in
their own serialization.  A JSON or YAML one, for example, would be
much lighter weight on both ends.

Cheers,
David.
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