Re: Rationalizing EXPLAIN VERBOSE output

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane writes:
> >> ... How hard would it be to get psql to
> >> send notice output into a \g file?
>
> > \g (and \o) send only the query results to a file. The idea is that you
> > want to save the results, but if there's a warning or error, you want to
> > see it. We could add alternative commands (\G and \O?) that save the
> > notices and errors as well. Not sure if this is useful beyond this
> > application. In non-interactive situations you'd usually use shell
> > redirections to save all output.
>
> The other possibility is to make EXPLAIN output look like a SELECT
> result. Not sure how hard this would be to do, but in the long run
> I suppose that would be the direction to move in.

Seems EXPLAIN as SELECT would break our elog() control of output to the
server logs.

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