Re: Saving explain output graphically

[Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>]

Dave Page wrote:
> On 14/01/2008, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
> > There was some talk a while back about being able to save the explain
> > output graphically, and I've taken a stab at it. Attached patch appears
> > to be working for me, but I had a lot of trouble getting things to work
> > properly before I found the right track. Specifically, I got the wrong
> > size of the image all the time.
> >
> > So if some people could test the patch with a bunch of different queries
> > and strange explain outputs, to see if you get proper size images out of
> > it, that would be great :-)
>
> I consistently get no border along the right hand side - see the
> attached example. It looks pretty good though :-)

Interesting. I don't get that here - what platform is that on? Mac?

Maybe just add a simple +20 pixels or something to the right to work 
around it? ;-) Given that it's not exactly aligned to the edge of the 
image anyway, that shouldn't be a problem?


> Now you just need to add options to include the data for each node and
> the query text :-p

Be my guest :-)

What would actually be *really* cool was an export in SVG including 
those, but wx doesn't do that :-)

//Magnus