On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:39:52AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Akshat Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Can I get the grammar for the explain output? > > There isn't one, it's just text and subject to change at a moment's > notice :-(. The past proposals that we format it a bit more rigidly > have so far foundered for lack of a workable definition of what the > structure should be. It's still an open problem to devise that > definition.
Structure for the human-consumable output or for something that would be machine-parsed? ISTM it would be best to keep the current output as-is, and provide some other means for producing machine-friendly output, presumably in a table format. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
