Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "<pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch
Date: 2010-02-10 14:46:21
Message-ID: 15869.1265813181@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I sort of assumed we might get some feedback from pgadmin or other
> tool writers between the time this was committed six months ago and
> now, but I haven't seen a single message from anyone who has actually
> tried to write a tool. As you imply, I think it will be very hard to
> change the format once this is released. At this point I think we may
> be stuck with using this format and hoping that it doesn't suck too
> badly.

We can still hope that some feedback comes in during beta. I think we
should be willing to adjust the output schema even late in beta, if
someone proposes a better idea.

But what we need to do is advertise for people to play around with
this...

regards, tom lane

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