Re: machine-readable explain output

Dave Page wrote:
>> I thing so using --with-libxml is good idea. Is nonsense repeat some
>> necessary xml code like xml escaping and similar. And almost all
>> distributed PostgreSQL binaries are compiled with xml support, so this
>> cannot do some problems. When somebody compile pg without xml support,
>> then he knows what he do.
>>     
>
> That will mean we never get to use XML explain in pgAdmin. We're not
> in the business of writing basic features that might work, if the
> postgres packager enabled an option. We need to be able to rely on
> such features always being available.
>
>   

As a matter of curiosity, do we have any idea what platforms don't 
support libxml2?

cheers

andrew