Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I may be thick as a post here and say "oh, I'm a moron" when you > explain this to me, but I still don't understand why that would > require the XML notation to interpose an intermediate node. Why can't > "filter" node itself can be the labelled container?
Filter isn't a node; it's a property of the containing Plan node. The way we have this set up, there's a distinction between properties and groups, which AFAICS we have to have in order to have directly comparable structures in XML and JSON. Didn't you design this yourself? (I think part of the issue is that containers in JSON are anonymous whereas XML wants to assign them a named type. That's fine with me, in fact the JSON approach looks rather impoverished.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers