alamb opened a new issue #96: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/96
*Note*: migrated from original JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-9746 As suggested by [~jorgecarleitao] on https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7959#pullrequestreview-467291192 -- > #### Other formats? > One thing I dislike about spark is that EXPLAIN is in a not-so-nice format to parse programmatically. One idea is to allow `explain` to return the result in json. This is e.g. useful to construct a visual graph representation of the plan. One idea would be to support another string parameter, `format`, and make it default to `string` (not necessarily in this PR). The typical thing I have used in the past to great effect is graphviz: https://graphviz.org/ and `dot` -- so the idea is that we would get a command like: {code} EXPLAIN FORMAT GRAPHVIZ SELECT * FROM FOO {code} which would provide the plan in graphviz format (in addition to text) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
