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

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management
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Msg-id 82pr6r7yaz.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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In response to Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
Responses Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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* Dimitri Fontaine:

> Well we have JSON and agreed it was a good idea to have it. Now JSON is
> a subset of YAML and some would prefer another YAML style (me included).

YAML is rather difficult to parse, and most parsers assume a trusted
document source because they support arbitrary class instantiations
(and it's not possible to switch this off, or it's rather involved to
do so).

Plain JSON doesn't have this issue.

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