On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan<and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > Good. I had a look at this for a little while yesterday. I built it, did an > install, loaded auto_explain and then ran the regression tests. I didn't > like the output much. It looks like the XML has been dumbed down to fit a > data model that works for JSON as well, particularly in the lack of use of > attributes. An XML processor won't care that much, but humans will certainly > find it more tiresome to read. In effect we are swapping horizontal > expansion for vertical expansion. It would be nicer to be able to fit a plan > into a screen.
Isn't that what text format is for? Not that the XML format is perfect; I haven't heard one person say that they like anything about it except that it is already implemented. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
