Re: return text from explain

[Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@xxxxxxxxx>]

cool, it does work with RETURN QUERY.

Thanx!

WBL

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Виктор Егоров <vyegorov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hope this helps:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION explain(in_sql text) RETURNS TABLE(explain_line text) AS $explain$

BEGIN

    RETURN QUERY EXECUTE 'EXPLAIN '||in_sql;

END;

$explain$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

SELECT * FROM explain('SELECT * FROM pg_locks');

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