Re: EXPLAIN format changes

Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Ashesh Vashi
> <ashesh(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> There are couple of questions:
>> 1. How to identify the subplan?
>
> OK, I think this is going to be too much of a change this far into
> beta. We still get a useful diagram as far as I can see, so lets just
> leave things as they are for now. In 8.5 we can make a point of
> getting XML output from EXPLAIN which will save us from having to
> maintain this hideous parser any longer.
>
> Thoughts? Magnus/Guillaume/Hiroshi?

I agree in principle :-)

Haven't looked into the details of what would be required here, but I
agree with both the "let's stay away from too invasive changes" part.
And if we do it now, we'll have to do it over again when we have a more
easily parse:able format in the future.

//Magnus