On 7/21/05, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > > Also, it would be a good time to suggest some way for making
> > > EXPLAIN script-friendly. Like return data as a computer program
> > > convenient table?
> I'm already trying to kludge this in Perl. It would help automated testing
> considerably if explain analyze could be output as tab-delimited text instead
> of the human-readable version.
Hmm, methinks it wouldn't be a very difficult "beginner's project" in
PostgreSQL hacking, to add "script-friendly" format for EXPLAIN
command. I am not sure if I'll make it, but I'm willing to try...
If I'm jumping on a too big a beast, please tell me. :)
Regards, Dawid