Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 07:18:50PM +0200, Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
>> Is it possible to use the output of explain as text values?
> I think you have to do EXPLAIN in a function and call the function.
Yeah, IIRC you can use EXPLAIN as the source statement in a plpgsql
FOR loop, ie
FOR text_variable IN EXPLAIN ... LOOP
which gets you the output one line at a time.
regards, tom lane
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