On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 02:45:55PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> (Michael: sorry for not having responded to your comments on the patch, $life
> has had little time over for hacking lately)
No worries, I understand.
> There is that. We might not be excited about writing tests for this
> contrib module but someone else might want to use this for testing
> their application in a similar manner to how pg_regress tests?
If we don't introduce it, there is no way to know. Still if somebody
needs to create regression tests they could just use EXPLAIN for the
same purpose. However, the option still seems useful to me to get out
plans with the most generic output, so I support the idea. If others
don't feel so, I am fine to give up as well.
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Michael