Re: WIP: a way forward on bootstrap data

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:38:54AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > Others: Now is the time to raise concerns related to the proposed
> > file formats and tooling, so please do have a look when you have a
> > moment. At this stage, the proposed data format seems a good
> > choice to me.
>
> It's not very clear to me what the proposed data format actually is,
> and I don't really want to read several hundred KB worth of patches
> in order to reverse-engineer that information. Nor do I see
> anything in the patch list that obviously looks like it updates
> doc/src/sgml/bki.sgml to explain things.
>
> So could we have an explanation of what it is we're agreeing to?

That would be awesome. A walk-through example or two would also help.

Best,
David.
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