Re: Get explain output of postgresql in Tables

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:39:52AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Akshat Nair" <akshat(dot)nair(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Can I get the grammar for the explain output?
>
> There isn't one, it's just text and subject to change at a moment's
> notice :-(. The past proposals that we format it a bit more rigidly
> have so far foundered for lack of a workable definition of what the
> structure should be. It's still an open problem to devise that
> definition.

Structure for the human-consumable output or for something that would be
machine-parsed? ISTM it would be best to keep the current output as-is,
and provide some other means for producing machine-friendly output,
presumably in a table format.
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