Using EXPLAIN in regressions?

From: Joshua Reich <josh(at)root(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Using EXPLAIN in regressions?
Date: 2006-07-20 21:21:17
Message-ID: 44BFF3CD.2090601@root.net
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Is it safe to use the output of EXPLAIN in regression tests? I want to
make sure that certain GiST indexes are being used by sample queries,
but I am not sure if it is safe to rely on the format of EXPLAIN to be
unchanging.

Thoughts?

Josh Reich

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