Re: parse tree to XML format

--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] parse tree to XML format
> To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "matt" <nuc233(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 7:39 PM
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 01:35:25
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
> wrote:
> > > On Monday 28 December 2009 22:30:44 matt wrote:
> > >> Is there some way to export the postgresql
> query parse tree in XML
> > >> format? I can not locate the API/Tool etc to
> do that...
> > >
> > > Thats more of a -general question.
> > >
> > > There is no such possibility in 8.4 - the not yet
> released 8.5 contains
> > > such a possibility.
> >
> > Well, you can export the plan as XML using EXPLAIN
> (FORMAT XML), but
> > that's not the same thing as the query parse-tree.
> Uh. Err. Sorry.
>
> You can play around with "debug_print_parse" but thats many
> things but
> definitely not xml.
>
> Matt, what are you trying to achieve?

We are trying to gather statistics about our queries and get automatic suggestions for what indexes to utilize ...its easier to figure that on queries that are in some format else we have to effectively parse the queries ourself or hack the postgresql parser...which we dont want to do...

Did you mention that the 8.5 code has such a functionality? i would like to download the code and play with it a bit, any pointers what i need to do to get the XML?

regards
Matt

>
> Andres
>