On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> OK, here it is again. Changes are the same as the previous version, >> but this one should apply cleanly after today's pgindent run. > > As I was poking through this I noticed that it makes at least one small > change in the output format: what had been "Subquery Scan ss" will now > be "Subquery Scan on ss", because of the unification of code that wasn't > really entirely consistent into one subroutine ExplainScanTarget.
Wow, nice catch. > This is not likely to matter to human readers but it might to programs. > OTOH we presumably expect programs to migrate to using a more > program-friendly EXPLAIN output format with 8.5. > > Does anyone have strong feelings about whether we need to be > bug-compatible with the old formatting? I kind of doubt it. Based on previous discussions, I gather that PGadmin et al have to be adjusted for each release anyway. But I also don't think it's a big deal if we make it work the way it used to. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers