On 12/30/09 9:50 PM, Andrew Lardinois wrote:
> I wrote to Len late last week, and just received this reply:
>
> "The instructional material to which you
> refer depends on a patch to the EXPLAIN facility that is not yet
> complete because, according to my student, Tom Raney, who developed
> the patch "The PG developer community was still plugging away working
> out a machine readable version of explain last time I checked:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg01944.php.".
> When it is working, I will announce it to you and the appropriate
> mailing lists."
FWIW, this feature is already committed for 8.5.
--Josh Berkus