On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 11:26 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:14 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > > Now that we can generate EXPLAIN output in more structured formats, > > perhaps we could think about adding an "extremely verbose" mode where > > the planner would "think out loud" as a whole separate section from > > where we show the chosen plan? > > Tom Raney did that a while back: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-07/msg00011.php > > He also had an accompanying visual tool to navigate the output in a > meaningful way. > > If he has moved on to other projects, it would be great if someone could > pick it up.
No kidding. It was a very cool project. Here is a video of a presentation he did at West 2008: http://www.vimeo.com/4101141 Joshua D. Drake > > Regards, > Jeff Davis > > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
