Re: pg_controldata gobbledygook

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > Comments?
>
> +1 from me.
>
> I don't think that these particular changes would break WAL-E,
> Heroku's continuous archiving tool, which has a class called
> PgControlDataParser. However, it's possible to imagine someone being
> affected in a similar way. So I'd be sure to document it clearly, and
> to perhaps preserve the old label names to avoid breaking scripts.
>
>
Why don't we add options to pg_controldata outputs the info in other
several formats like json, yaml, xml or another one?

Best regards,

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