On 01/14/2011 05:04 PM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
If there is going to be any change, how about using fixed columns (an possibly allowing them to be empty for stuff that's expensive to create/write), but adding a 1st column that contains a "version" identifyer. And to make it easy, maybe the PG major version as the version value. If the 1st column is always the version, tools can easily know if they understand all the columns (and what order they are in) and it' easy to write a "conversion" that strips/re-aranges columns from a newer CVS dump to match an older one if you have tools that don't know about newer column layouts..
The whole point of having CSV logs is so you can load them into a database table without needing preprocessing tools. So I'm not going to be very receptive to changes that are predicated on using such tools.
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