Re: Explain XML patch v2

Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 19:38 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Simon Riggs <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > * If the patch was implemented as an ExplainOneQuery_hook we would be
> > able to use this with 8.3 also, which might be interesting. So there's
> > no real need for this to be a patch on core.
> 
> Would that mean that instead of being an optional format that pgAdmin
> could request with appropriate grammar, it would be something that was
> only available if the plugin was loaded, and would replace regular
> EXPLAIN output? If so, that would be extremely inconvenient, and next
> to useless for general purpose utilities.

It can be optional since plugins can add parameters also.

It wouldn't take long to make up a plugin for 8.3 once this patch has
been committed to core for 8.4, so if you're saying you'd definitely
like it in core then I'm OK with that.

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