Re: machine-readable explain output

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: machine-readable explain output
Date: 2009-06-14 12:57:52
Message-ID: 4A34F3D0.8080703@dunslane.net
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Dave Page wrote:
>> I thing so using --with-libxml is good idea. Is nonsense repeat some
>> necessary xml code like xml escaping and similar. And almost all
>> distributed PostgreSQL binaries are compiled with xml support, so this
>> cannot do some problems. When somebody compile pg without xml support,
>> then he knows what he do.
>>
>
> That will mean we never get to use XML explain in pgAdmin. We're not
> in the business of writing basic features that might work, if the
> postgres packager enabled an option. We need to be able to rely on
> such features always being available.
>
>

As a matter of curiosity, do we have any idea what platforms don't
support libxml2?

cheers

andrew

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