Re: machine-readable explain output - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: machine-readable explain output
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Msg-id 200906171738.34568.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: machine-readable explain output  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tuesday 16 June 2009 22:51:37 Robert Haas wrote:
> I agree.  I'm just not seeing the need for an *explicit*
> categorization contained within the data itself.  For one thing, AIUI,
> that's the job of things like an XML Schema, which Andres Freund has
> already agreed to write, and I would expect that would be of some
> value to tool-writers, else why are we creating it? 

A schema will just tell which documents are valid, not what they mean.  That 
is the job of XML ontologies, which are about as pie-in-the-sky as the 
semantic web that they are supposed to end up building.



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