Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> YAML... > > Hmm. So the argument for it is "let's make a machine-readable format > more human-readable"? I'm not getting the point. People should look > at the regular text output.
IMHO YAML beats the regular text format for human-readability - at least for people with narrow terminal windows, and for novices. Greg posted examples comparing regular-text vs yaml vs json here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-08/msg02090.php I think it's more human-readable for novices since it explicitly spells out what values refer to startup values vs totals. I think it's more human-readable to me because the current text format frequently wraps for me on even a modestly complex query, and I find scrolling down easier than scrolling both ways. None of the other machine-intended formats seem to suit that purpose well because they're dominated by a lot of markup. That said, though, it's not that big a deal. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
