Some infrastructure changes for the upcoming auto-explain contrib module:

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: cd35e9d7468e8f86dd5a7d928707f4ba8cdae44d
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2008-11-19T01:10:24Z
Releases: 8.4.0
Some infrastructure changes for the upcoming auto-explain contrib module:

* Refactor explain.c slightly to export a convenient-to-use subroutine
for printing EXPLAIN results.

* Provide hooks for plugins to get control at ExecutorStart and ExecutorEnd
as well as ExecutorRun.

* Add some minimal support for tracking the total runtime of ExecutorRun.
This code won't actually do anything unless a plugin prods it to.

* Change the API of the DefineCustomXXXVariable functions to allow nonzero
"flags" to be specified for a custom GUC variable.  While at it, also make
the "bootstrap" default value for custom GUCs be explicitly specified as a
parameter to these functions.  This is to eliminate confusion over where the
default comes from, as has been expressed in the past by some users of the
custom-variable facility.

* Refactor GUC code a bit to ensure that a custom variable gets initialized to
something valid (like its default value) even if the placeholder value was
invalid.

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