Re: Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

On 9 June 2010 12:07, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 9 June 2010 03:48, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Er, I should also say, thanks for the report, and please test.  I am
>>> definitely not an expert on YAML.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not an expert on YAML either, but I don't think this works (at
>> least it breaks against the online YAML parser here:
>> http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/). If the string starts with a
>> ".", then it tries to treat it as a floating point number and baulks
>> if the rest of the string isn't a valid number.
>
> Really?  I enter:
>
> - foo
> - bar
> - .baz
>
> And it produces this JSON:
>
> [
>  "foo",
>  "bar",
>  ".baz"
> ]
>
> That looks OK to me.
>

Ah, OK I didn't test those cases properly before composing my email.
It's actually only a "." on its own that it can't parse.

- just: write some
- yaml:
- .

ERROR:

invalid literal for float(): .

I'm not sure if that's valid YAML or not.

My comment about numbers still applies though. The following are
different values:

- just: write some
- yaml:
- 123
- "123"

[
{
"just": "write some"
},
{
"yaml": [
123,
"123"
]
}
]

Regards,
Dean