Re: Parsing output of EXPLAIN command in PostgreSQL

2011/11/10 Αναστάσιος Αρβανίτης <tasosarvanitis(at)yahoo(dot)gr>:
> I'm developing an application that requires parsing of
> execution plans (those produced as output by issuing an EXPLAIN [query]
> command). Are you aware of any Java library that I could use for this
> purpose? I found https://github.com/depesz/Pg--Explain but it is built in Perl.
>
> Also another option I am considering is to use EXPLAIN [query] FORMAT XML which is available in PostgreSQL 9.1. However, in that case it
> would better to have the XML Schema of the generated plans available.
>
> Is there any other solution I am not aware of?

Not that I know of. I think pgAdmin can parse the EXPLAIN output,
too, but that's in C++.

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