| From: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: YAML Was: CommitFest status/management |
| Date: | 2009-12-02 21:18:35 |
| Message-ID: | 37ed240d0912021318x10b58bdbl95afd4b2ac67180d@mail.gmail.com |
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2009/12/3 Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)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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