Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:44:15AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> * Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily processed by scripts
>> Can I request an extension/additional point?
>> * Design EXPLAIN output to survive cut & paste on mailing-lists
>>
>> Being able to paste into a web-form and get something readable formatted
>> back would be very useful on the lists. Sometimes it takes me longer to
>> reformat the explain than it does to understand the problem.
>
> Actually, I've been wondering about better ways to handle this. One
> thought is to come up with a non-human readable format that could easily
> be cut and pasted into a website that would then provide something easy
> to understand. Ideally that website could also produce graphical output
> like pgAdmin does, since that makes it trivially easy to see what the
> 'critical path' is.
I actually started putting something like this together about a year
ago, but the majority of my time was spent reformatting the text rather
than reading the explain.
I've still got a simple perl script that just looks for the most costly
steps in an explain and prints their line-number. Lots of false
positives but it helps to give a starting point for investigations.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd