On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> We could in principle change to a different text representation for
> stored rules. Compactness would be an issue if it were materially
> bigger than the existing formatting, but offhand it seems like JSON
> is morally equivalent to what we do now, no?
Yeah, but it gains a little.
{FROB :zot 3}
would become something like
{"type": "FROB", "zot": 3}
You could minimize the damage by using a single character name, like
an underscore, for the node type, and emitting all whitespace:
{"_":"FROB","zot":3}
...but it's still more. Possibly not enough to matter, but more.
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