Greetings,

* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes:
> > On 2018-11-30 19:53:18 +0100, David Fetter wrote:
> >> This makes it much simpler for computers to use the logs while not
> >> making it excessively difficult for humans to use them.
> 
> > While perhaps not excessively so, I think it increases the difficulty
> > sufficiently that I'm against such a proposal.
> 
> I don't like this either.  People who prefer CSV format can select it
> trivially.  Those who don't are going to be annoyed at us for changing
> behavior that's stood for many years.

Agreed.  Frankly, even if we made this the default, I doubt packagers
would decide to go with it because of the issues raised here.

> I think we should reject this out of hand.

Agreed.

Thanks!

Stephen

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