Re: machine-readable explain output

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Robert Haas<robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>> However, using BuildTupleFromCStrings is wasteful/stupid for *both*
>>>> text and xml output, so it seems like getting rid of it is the thing
>>>> to do here.
>>
>>> Makes sense.  However, if we just make that change in do_tup_output(),
>>> then we'll break the ability to use that function for non-text
>>> datatypes.
>>
>> I'd envision it taking Datums, so it doesn't really matter.  However,
>> as you say, specializing it to text only wouldn't be much of a loss.
>
> I like the Datum option, so I'll work up a patch for that, unless you
> want to just do it and spare me the trouble.  :-)

Here's an attempt. Is this anything like what you had in mind?

...Robert