Re: machine-readable explain output

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: machine-readable explain output
Date: 2009-06-12 17:45:59
Message-ID: 603c8f070906121045t32c10021l7421396f294f516b@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Josh Berkus<josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 6/11/09 10:15 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> Here we go, XML and JSON output.
>>
>> You will need to apply explain_refactor-v4.patch and
>> explain_options-v2.patch first, then apply the two patches attached to
>> this message.
>
> Wow, cool.  Can this work with auto_explain?  That's where I see
> machine-readable being most useful.

The patch does touch contrib/auto_explain, but just enough to make it
keep working the same way it does now. I don't think it would be too
hard to improve on that, though; I might work on it if I get bored,
but I'm hoping someone else will be motivated enough to do that part.
:-)

How would you go about extracting the XML/JSON bits from the rest of
what is in the log file? (apologies if this is a question I should
already know the answer to)

...Robert

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