Bug#176308: RFP: rhdb-explain -- PostgreSQL Visual Explain tool developed for PostgreSQL-based Red Hat Database

["David D. Kilzer" <ddkilzer@theracingworld.com>]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2003-01-11
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : rhdb-explain
  Version         : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc. <rhdb@sources.redhat.com>
* URL             : http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : PostgreSQL Visual Explain tool developed for PostgreSQL-based Red Hat Database

Red Hat Database Visual Explain is a tool for visualizing the output of
the PostgreSQL EXPLAIN command. EXPLAIN shows users the query plan that
a PostgreSQL backend produces for a given optimizable query. The default
form of this plan is a plain-text tree, which, while easy to read for
simple queries, becomes progressively more difficult to interpret as
query complexity increases. By visualizing the text output of EXPLAIN in
an appropriate manner, the difficulty of interpreting query plans drops
significantly.
.
Written in Tcl, the tool aims for cross-platform compatibility.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux marvin 2.4.20 #5 SMP Fri Jan 3 16:11:01 CST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C