Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:52 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Robert Haas escribió:
>
> > Tallying up the votes on this patch, we have Tom Lane, Andrew Dunstan,
> > Josh Drake, and myself arguing against including this in core, and
> > Josh Berkus and Itagaki Takahiro arguing for it. Ron Mayer seemed
> > somewhat in favor of it in his message on-list but sent a message
> > off-list taking the opposite position. Brendan Jurd cast aspersions
> > on the human-readability of the text format but didn't explicitly take
> > a position on the core issue,
>
> Please add my vote for YAML, because of the human-unreadability of the
> default text format. In fact I'd argue we could rip out the default
> text format and replace it with this one.

That would almost correct. My standing is we should have one format that
is parsed. The current "text" explain output certainly does not qualify.
The XML one or YAML one does.

Pick one, then parse it into whatever you want from the client.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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