Re: Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I still agree with Dean's original proposal: always quote the values of
>>> strings.
>
>> I'd still rather rip the format out entirely than do that.
>
> I'd be on board with that too ;-)
>
>> Dean's
>> proposal was based on the idea that it would be safe to quote only the
>> values and not the keys, which is not something I care to bank on.
>
> Why not?  Surely we can restrict EXPLAIN's set of key names to be safe.

It seems to me that it would be easy for a future patch to break this
by accident.

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