On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > Perhaps this is just a terminology difference but it seems > ridiculously *narrow* to me:
Try "select * from pg_class". >> Or as I said at the time... nobody liked anything about the patch >> except that they didn't have to write it. > > I know I am often paralyzed by not being certain what the perfect > choice is and I think the project as a whole suffers from that > sometime. XML explain output was on the agenda for years but was > stalled because we weren't sure what XML schema would be useful. And > we couldn't find out what XML schema would be useful until we had some > tools trying to use the data.... > > If pgadmin tries to use the xml data and comes back with some feedback > will we be able to rejigger the schema? Will pgadmin be happy with a > different xml schema for each version? I suppose this depends in part > with how powerful the xml schema parsers are these days, my > understanding is that they're complex but that doesn't necessarily > translate into being powerful. I sort of assumed we might get some feedback from pgadmin or other tool writers between the time this was committed six months ago and now, but I haven't seen a single message from anyone who has actually tried to write a tool. As you imply, I think it will be very hard to change the format once this is released. At this point I think we may be stuck with using this format and hoping that it doesn't suck too badly. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
