Re: Understanding EXPLAIN ANALYZE output

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> 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...

The major stumbling block to that is that a table is inherently
unordered, so you'd have to devise a labeling scheme to allow the
node-tree structure to be represented properly.  And without WITH or
CONNECT BY, it'd be a bit of a PITA for an application to decipher the
labeling scheme again ...

            regards, tom lane