| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SHOW TABLES |
| Date: | 2010-07-15 17:18:08 |
| Message-ID: | 1279214288.1735.13826.camel@ebony |
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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)
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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