Dear Marian, in postgresql 7.3 explain commands retruns as set of rows. The result of EXPLAIN can just be fecthed as result of any other SELECT query and manipulated further. i hope it helps. sorry if i did not get ur problem rite. regds mallah. On Friday 21 Mar 2003 11:51 am, Popeanga Marian wrote: > > > Roberto Mello wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:46:01AM +0200, Popeanga Marian wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >> > >> Can someone point me how can i make explain plan for a query? > >> > >> > > > >explain select blah from foo where bar = baz; > > > >\h explain > > > >Look at the PostgreSQL documentation (SQL Reference). > > > >-Roberto > > > > > > > I have look at this command. I want to know how can i make this from > other tool than pgsql. > In oracle when i issue an explain plan the explain insert values into a > table ( plan_table ). > Then i could select the values from plan_table. Is there similar > in postgres ? > > -- > Popeanga Marian > DBA Oracle > CNLO Romania > > > -- Rajesh Kumar Mallah, Project Manager (Development) Infocom Network Limited, New Delhi phone: +91(11)6152172 (221) (L) ,9811255597 (M) Visit http://www.trade-india.com , India's Leading B2B eMarketplace. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster