README.md

PlanChecker

PlanChecker parses Greenplum query plans and highlight any potential performance issues.

Package

plan.go contains all the logic for parsing the query plans. There are 3 example programs which initialize a plan object using different methods. Test data is in the testdata directory.

Example reading from file

Passes the filename to PlanChecker

./plancheck_example_from_file testdata/explain01.txt

Example reading from string

Reads file contents and passes string to PlanChecker

./plancheck_example_from_string testdata/explain01.txt

Example reading from stdin

PlanChecker reads directly from stdin

cat testdata/explain01.txt | ./plancheck_example_from_stdin

Webservice

This provides a web interface. A Postgres database is required.

Create the required table:

psql -h HOSTNAME -U USERNAME -d DATABASE -f planchecker.sql

Set the env variables:

export PORT=8000
export CONSTRING='postgres://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME/DATABASE'

Start the service:

./planchecker

Then browse to:

http://localhost:8000