Hi, > I wanted to hook into the EXPLAIN output for queries and add some extra > information, but since there is no standard_ExplainOneQuery() I had to copy > the code and create my own version. > > Since the pattern with other hooks for a function WhateverFunction() seems to > be that there is a standard_WhateverFunction() for each > WhateverFunction_hook, I created a patch to follow this pattern for your > consideration. > > I was also considering adding a callback so that you can annotate any node > with explanatory information that is not a custom scan node. This could be > used to propagate and summarize information from custom scan nodes, but I had > no immediate use for that so did not add it here. I would still be interested > in hearing if you think this is something that would be useful to the > community.
Thanks for the patch. LGTM. I registered the patch on the nearest open CF [1] and marked it as RfC. It is a pretty straightforward refactoring. [1]: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/48/4879/ -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev
