François Beausoleil wrote > Hi all! > > Building a small tool, and it would be super useful if I could get both > the query results and the plan at the same time. At the moment, the tool > accepts a SQL query, drops it into a file and call psql > --file=whatever.sql. I can change to use a lower-level API if necessary. > > Ideally, I’d like to do something like EXLAIN (ANALYZE, RESULTS) SELECT > ... > > I’m talking about multi-minute queries, so it’s less than ideal if I have > to run the query twice: once for EXPLAIN ANALYZE, once for the actual > results. > > Looking around, > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postgresql+get+query+results+and+query+plan+in+single+call > doesn’t return anything useful. Google neither, for that matter. The PG > mailing list archives seem to not have any results on that. > > I’m specifically using 9.1. Not opposed to upgrade if necessary. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auto-explain.html There is no way to do so from a client interface. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Is-there-a-way-to-get-both-the-plan-and-the-results-tp5821313p5821315.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general