On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > If we have promised that, I think we should break the promise. No > application should depend on the details of EXPLAIN output, even if it's in > JSON/YAML/XML format. EXPLAIN is used by humans, and by tools like pgAdmin > that display the output for humans, so let's do what makes most sense for > humans. Admin tools will have to deal with new node types, and also new plan > structures in every new release anyway. And if an admin tool doesn't > recognize the new format, it surely falls back to displaying them in some a > reasonable generic form.
+1 -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
