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Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management

David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: 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: 2009-12-07T18:39:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> 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.

+1

David