Re: Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

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.

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