On 11/20/2013 04:12 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Hi all > > I'm spending a lot of time staring at parse and plan trees at the > moment, and I'm finding reading them rather cumbersome. > > For those of you who do this a lot, do you use any sort of tooling to > help you out? Just being able to collapse and expand subtrees would be a > lifesaver. > > If it's a hassle for others too, how would you feel about using json as > an output format in future releases? It'd be pretty simple to retrofit > by the looks, though updating the regression tests would be a PITA. My > main concern would be effects on back-patching.
Inevitably, as soon as I post I realise why it's "hell no". The same representation is used for storing rules. So it can't be changed for BC reasons and compactness/performance. I'll just post-process. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
