Re: [HACKERS] Querytree printing

Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>

From: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: jwieck@debis.com, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-05-11T09:00:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >     Who needs the pretty printed output of nodeDisplay() ?
> >
> >     I  find  the  output  of nodeToString() much more useful when
> >     debugging the rewrite  system  (especially  when  looking  at
> >     querytree's  resulting  from joins with many RTE's, Resdom's,
> >     TLE's plus qual, group by etc. clauses.  It's  hard  to  keep
> >     track  where I am if the entire tree spans hundreds of lines.
> >
> >     Thus I would like to change the output of -d4 back to that of
> >     nodeToString().  Anyone against?
>
> I like the long pretty printing, with the indentation.  You are
> suggesting going to the more compressed format.  Can we have -d4 do
> compressed printing, and -d5 to pretty printing?  That would be good.

    Yepp - that's the right solution. Done soon!


Jan

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