Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I sort of assumed we might get some feedback from pgadmin or other
>> tool writers between the time this was committed six months ago and
>> now, but I haven't seen a single message from anyone who has actually
>> tried to write a tool.  As you imply, I think it will be very hard to
>> change the format once this is released.  At this point I think we may
>> be stuck with using this format and hoping that it doesn't suck too
>> badly.
>
> We can still hope that some feedback comes in during beta.  I think we
> should be willing to adjust the output schema even late in beta, if
> someone proposes a better idea.

I'm not opposed to that in principal, but in practice the PGadmin
folks may not like us very much if we change things too drastically if
they've got it working the way we had it... we'll just have to see
what reports we get, I suppose.

...Robert
>
> But what we need to do is advertise for people to play around with
> this...
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>