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["Vladislav Vaintroub" <wlad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> discuss-bounces+wlad=montyprogram.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Michael Widenius
> Sent: Freitag, 28. September 2012 16:04
> To: Peter Laursen; igor@xxxxxxxxxxxx; timour@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
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> Cc: Maria Discuss; Maria Developers
> Subject: Re: [Maria-discuss] [Maria-developers] Json Explain
> 
> 
> For the moment we don't have a plan for that.
> 
> The main reason is that the MariadB optimizer people don't like the
> implementation and we are not sure how useful the current output
> really is.
>

I guess json  is not for normal people to read , it is for programs to
analyze and ,for example, display in a visually pleasing fashion. I believe
this is the reason why Peter asks, and (I guess) the reason why Workbench
has visual explain feature now for 5.6+.
http://www.arubin.org/blog/2012/09/26/mysql-visual-explain/