On February 21, 2015 7:20:04 PM CET, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>On 02/21/2015 11:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
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>> {
>> oid => 2249,
>> oiddefine => 'CSTRINGOID',
>> typname => 'cstring',
>> typlen => -2,
>> typbyval => 1,
>> ...
>> }
>
>
>which is pure perl syntax and wouldn't need any extra module, and has
>the advantage over JSON that key names won't need to be quoted, making
>it more readable.
Yea, my original post suggested using actual perl hashes to avoid problems with the availability of libraries. So far
I'venot really heard a convincing alternative. Peter's problem with formatting seems to be most easily solved by
rewritingthe file automatically...
Andres
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