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Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>

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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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: 2009-12-07T12:39:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Dimitri Fontaine:

> Well we have JSON and agreed it was a good idea to have it. Now JSON is
> a subset of YAML and some would prefer another YAML style (me included).

YAML is rather difficult to parse, and most parsers assume a trusted
document source because they support arbitrary class instantiations
(and it's not possible to switch this off, or it's rather involved to
do so).

Plain JSON doesn't have this issue.

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