Re: Is it possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into a table

From: Souvik Bhattacherjee <kivuosb(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into a table
Date: 2019-04-23 23:11:54
Message-ID: CAANrPSfo5EgVpfe02eJRSXtpxUO-rMQkHNja-jFMn+52ac0RwQ@mail.gmail.com
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Thanks, works fine!

-Souvik

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:02 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Souvik Bhattacherjee <kivuosb(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I was just wondering if it is possible to store the output of EXPLAIN
> into
> > a table.
>
> EXPLAIN won't do that directly, but you could make a plpgsql function
> along the lines of
>
> for t in execute explain ...
> return next t;
>
> (too lazy to check the exact details here, but I believe you can find
> related examples in our regression tests) and then store the function's
> result into a table.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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