Re: Re: [GENERAL] contrib/plantuner - enable PostgreSQL planner hints

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
>
>
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