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Re: Add YAML option to explain

Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>

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From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-08-29T00:03:00Z
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2009-08-28 at 20:13 +0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> Readability and easy editing. All the power of JSON without the
>> annoying quotes, braces, and brackets.
> 
> But these are supposed to be machine-readable formats.  So readability
> and editability are not high priority criteria.
> 

Greg, can we see a few examples of the YAML output compared to
both json and text?

IMVHO, an advantage of YAML is human readability of structured
data even compared to most non-computer-parseable human-intended
text formats.   But maybe that's just because I read too much yaml.