On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Admittedly this is a bit inconvenient, but the point is that the > functionality does exist. There is no need to have a built-in > version of this function unless we get significant advantages > from having it built-in, and right now I'm not seeing those.
I assume people don't want the *text* of the current output format but the actual values in separate columns. So you could do things like accumulate the data in a table and later use sql to search for queries using specific indexes or where estimates are off etc. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
