On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:38:47PM +0100, Harald Fuchs wrote: > But I think it should be the other way round: EXPLAIN ANALYZE should > return its output in table form, and there should be a function to > convert that table into what EXPLAIN ANALYZE outputs now. I've been wondering about that. A while ago the change was made from outputting a NOTICE with the EXPLAIN output to returning a resultset. If you could agree on what columns to return it might not be so hard for the EXPLAIN to return full tuples... Backward compatability is a problem though... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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