Re: machine-readable explain output v4

On Monday 10 August 2009 03:43:22 Andres Freund wrote:
> On Monday 10 August 2009 03:34:36 Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > > Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > >> Adding the notion of opening a 'empty' Group together with X_OPENCLOSE
> > >> or handling of X_OPENING|X_CLOSING would allow to handle empty tags
> > >> like in ExplainOneUtility (<Notify />).
> > >
> > > Yeah, I was just wondering what to do with the <Notify /> code. I'm
> > > not sure if it's worth trying to fold it into the OpenGroup/CloseGroup
> > > code --- it might be easier to have an ExplainEmptyGroup or something
> > > like that.
> >
> > Well there's no rule that says you can't emit it as
> > <Notify>
> > </Notify>
> That wont work nicely with json output.
I have not the slightest clue what I was thinking while typing that...

Andres