| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Αναστάσιος Αρβανίτης <tasosarvanitis(at)yahoo(dot)gr>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Parsing output of EXPLAIN command in PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2011-11-10 23:47:18 |
| Message-ID: | 19892.1320968838@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 11/10/2011 04:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Nonetheless, it's solving the wrong problem. Any program that is being
>> written today to read EXPLAIN output should be written to read one of
>> the machine-readable formats.
> Umm, it *does* handle all the formats:
The point I'm trying to make is that translating the parts that handle
text into another language seems like wasted effort. depesz has a
specific problem to solve, namely wanting to accept emailed input from
users who are likely to send any format; and that requires him to expend
a lot of effort that is not likely to be necessary in any other setting.
regards, tom lane
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