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Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-07T17:52:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas escribió:

> Tallying up the votes on this patch, we have Tom Lane, Andrew Dunstan,
> Josh Drake, and myself arguing against including this in core, and
> Josh Berkus and Itagaki Takahiro arguing for it.  Ron Mayer seemed
> somewhat in favor of it in his message on-list but sent a message
> off-list taking the opposite position.  Brendan Jurd cast aspersions
> on the human-readability of the text format but didn't explicitly take
> a position on the core issue,

Please add my vote for YAML, because of the human-unreadability of the
default text format.  In fact I'd argue we could rip out the default
text format and replace it with this one.

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