Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Brendan Jurd
Subject Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management
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Msg-id 37ed240d0912021318x10b58bdbl95afd4b2ac67180d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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2009/12/3 Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm.  So the argument for it is "let's make a machine-readable format
>> more human-readable"?  I'm not getting the point.  People should look
>> at the regular text output.
>
> IMHO YAML beats the regular text format for human-readability -
> at least for people with narrow terminal windows, and for novices.

Agreed.  Calling the regular text output of EXPLAIN "human readable"
is an exaggeration.

Cheers,
BJ


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