Re: return text from explain - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Willy-Bas Loos
Subject Re: return text from explain
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Msg-id CAHnozThGwTJUi6NxynVP8pNWmycidoz2BVtQxBgjv_eqFPVkvQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to return text from explain  (Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
correction.
What won't work is:

select y||'--some text'
from
(
explain select *
from (values (1),(2), (3)) foo(x)
where x > 2
) bar(y)

Cheers,

WBL

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

Is it possible to use the output of explain as text values?
This won't work:

explain select *
from (values (1),(2),(3)) foo(x)
where x > 2

What i really want is to explain analyze a dynamic query that i build up in a function.
If it returns a value i can do stuff with it, but i can't find out how to grasp the query plan as a value.

pgAdmin shows it as text values in the data output tab, but that might be a hack outside the database realm.

Cheers,

WBL
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