On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:06:37PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > If that's what we're trying to solve, I don't think that adding > > some kind of proprietary shorthand coding is a good idea. If > > we're do to this at all, it should be a connection-based GUC > > option, and use some standard formal like XML fragments. > > +1 to this idea in general, but *please* don't consider the use of > XML. If we really need some sort of formatting, let's do CSV. Or > YAML. Or JSON. Anything but XML.
+1 on the "anything but XML." XML reeks of inner platform effect. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect> Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
