Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>> > Is Redhat's Visual Explain still alive?  And what about Tom Raney's stuff?
>>
>> The core of Tom Raney's work was not so much the EXPLAIN format per se
>> (which is really mooted by the changes already made in CVS) but the
>> ability to get information about plans the planner considered and
>> discarded.  I am not sure whether the latter is something we want to
>> accept into core (not for 9.0 at any rate, I would think).
>
> I was thinking in his visual stuff ... didn't he also wrote a tool to
> visualize plans?

Yeah, but again, that was to see all the other things that were
considered at any given node, not just to see the actual plan.

...Robert