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Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management

Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>

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From: Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>
To: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-02T21:18:35Z
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2009/12/3 Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm.  So the argument for it is "let's make a machine-readable format
>> more human-readable"?  I'm not getting the point.  People should look
>> at the regular text output.
>
> IMHO YAML beats the regular text format for human-readability -
> at least for people with narrow terminal windows, and for novices.

Agreed.  Calling the regular text output of EXPLAIN "human readable"
is an exaggeration.

Cheers,
BJ