On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@turnstep.com> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > I don't think the above would be particularly hard to implement myself, > but if it becomes a really big deal, we can certainly punt by simply > quoting anything containing an indicator (the special characters above). > It will still be 100% valid YAML, just with some excess quoting for the > very rare case when a value contains one of the special characters.
Since you're the main advocate of this feature, I think you should implement it rather than leaving it to Tom or I. The reason why I was initially skeptical of adding a YAML output format is that JSON is a subset of YAML. Therefore, the JSON output format ought to be perfectly sufficient for anyone using a YAML parser. If it's not, that's because their YAML processor is broken, and they should get a new one, or because the YAML spec is defective. The YAML format got voted in by consensus because people thought that it would also make a nice alternative to the text format for human readable output. I don't believe that (it uses way too much vertical space) but even if you accept the argument, the more we make the YAML format look like the JSON format, the less water that argument holds. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
