Re: documenting the backup manifest file format - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2020-Apr-14, David Steele wrote:

> On 4/14/20 12:56 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> > Hmm, did David suggest that before? I don't recall for sure. I think
> > he had some suggestion, but I'm not sure if it was the same one.
> 
> "I'm also partial to using epoch time in the manifest because it is
> generally easier for programs to work with.  But, human-readable doesn't
> suck, either."

Ugh.  If you go down that road, why write human-readable contents at
all?  You may as well just use a binary format.  But that's a very
slippery slope and you won't like to be in the bottom -- I don't see
what that gains you.  It's not like it's a lot of work to parse a
timestamp in a non-internationalized well-defined human-readable format.

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