On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:14:05AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Julien Rouhaud <rjuju...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Agreed. One the other hand having such a function in core may ensure that > > any > > significant change in those area will keep an API to retrieve the final > > query > > representation. > > My point is precisely that I'm unwilling to make such a promise. > > I do not buy that this capability is worth very much, given that > we've gotten along fine without it for twenty-plus years. If you > want to have it as an internal, might-change-at-any-time API, > that seems all right.
I'm totally fine with a might-change-at-any-time API, but not with a might-disappear-at-anytime API. If exposing get_query_def() can become virtually useless in a few releases with no hope to get required in-core change for retrieving the final query representation, I agree this we can stop the discussion here.
