On 12/31/19 10:43 AM, David Fetter wrote:
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 01:30:01PM +0100, Tels wrote:
Moin,
sorry for the very late reply. There was a discussion about the specific
format of the backup manifests, and maybe that was already discussed and I
just overlooked it:
1) Why invent your own format, and not just use a machine-readable format
that already exists? It doesn't have to be full blown XML, or even JSON,
something simple as YAML would already be better. That way not everyone has
to write their own parser. Or maybe it is already YAML and just the
different keywords where under discussion?
YAML is extremely fragile and error-prone. It's also a superset of
JSON, so I don't understand what you mean by "as simple as."
-1 from me on YAML
-1 from me as well. YAML is easy to write but definitely non-trivial to
read.
That said, I agree that there's no reason to come up with a bespoke
format and parser when JSON is already available in every PostgreSQL
installation. Imposing a structure atop that includes a version
number, as you suggest, seems pretty straightforward, and should be
done.
+1. I continue to support a format that would be easily readable
without writing a lot of code.
--
-David
da...@pgmasters.net
