From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: EXPLAIN omits schema? |
Date: | 2007-06-13 15:02:16 |
Message-ID: | 467006F8.4060601@commandprompt.com |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I agree with the idea of having an option to get EXPLAIN's output in
>> an entirely different, more machine-readable format. Not wedded to
>> XML, but I fear that a pure relational structure might be too strict ---
>> there's a lot of variability in the entries already. XML also could
>> deal naturally with nesting, whereas we'd have to jump through hoops
>> to represent the plan tree structure in relational form.
>>
>>
>
> I agree. XML seems like a fairly natural fit for this. Just as people
> should not try to shoehorn everything into XML, neither should they try
> to shoehorn everything into a relational format either.
>
> Now all we need is an XML schema for it ;-)
Well I am not a big fan of XML but it certainly seems applicable in this
case.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
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