On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 19:02 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > I imagined that we would do something similar to EXPLAIN, a set of text > > rows returned. > > Wouldn't that be useless for the case when an app wants to use it? An > app will require it to be structured somehow. > > There's a reason we made EXPLAIN output data structured now. But I > guess you could define an XML/JSON schema and return it in that...
The proposed goal is simplicity, not to be all things to all men. Anybody that wants structured output can i) write that as a future patch ii) write SQL to retrieve exactly what they want (preferred) -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training and Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
