Re: generic options for explain

Magnus Hagander a écrit :
> Dave Page wrote:
>   
>> I was thinking something similar, but from the pgAdmin perspective. We
>> already use libxml2, but JSON would introduce another dependency for
>> us.
>>     
>
> Yeah, but probably not a huge one. There is one for wx, but I don't
> think it's included by default.
>
>   
+1 for the machine readable explain.

FWIW, I have an early patch for phpPgAdmin about a graphical explain. 
IIRC when I wrote it, I told myself the parser might actually be broken 
with multi-level sub-queries or something. But I ended with the same 
parsing code than pgAdmin anyway.

About the format, JSON would be the best here, as it is a one function 
call in PHP to retrieve an associative array from the JSON code.

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Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais