Re: Explain XML patch submitted

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Where are we on this patch?
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I think I submitted the patch before its time. The project opened a big
can of worms with the XML output. I'd like to rework it with some of
the comments I received.

The work there was some prep-work for the planner visualizer I've been
working on. I haven't had time to revisit this initial work.

-Tom Raney

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> raneyt(at)cecs(dot)pdx(dot)edu wrote:
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>> I just posted a patch addressing the TODO item:
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>> "Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily processed by scripts, perhaps XML"
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>> This is a modified patch originally submitted by Germ?n Po? Caama?o
>> last year. I added the DTD and some other tweaks.
>>
>> I did *not* delve much into the ecpg code, other than mildly modifying
>> prepoc.y by adding the XML and DTD defines. I'm sure more work is
>> required there.
>>
>> And, I did not include "Init Plan" and "Sub Plan" in the XML output,
>> which did not fit into the XML in a graceful way. But, that can also
>> be revisited.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom Raney
>>
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