D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:54 -0500
Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
I suppose we could define another line with options that we could
define for meta information such as the border setting and the table
name and whatever we define later. E.g:
"table:person","border:3","funky:option with \":\""
Why do you want to add this extra information? psql doesn't output it
now, and IIRC your original proposal didn't do it either.
It mentioned including meta information. I'm not sure that I really
care if I get it but we may want it in general, if not now then later,
and it would be something that would be extremely hard to retrofit. If
we start out with just the table and perhaps the border setting we can
always add more later if we find we need it. If we don't start with
something then adding an extra line later will cause all sorts of
heartache.
For CSV it's likely to cause a headache right at the start. CSV with a
single header line is a well known and mostly understood format. I don't
know of any CSV processor (including ours) that handles more than one
header line.
This is actually an example of why XML is not such a bad choice. It is
rich enough that a processor is unlikely to be confused by metadata, and
capable of being turned into almost any other format you might want with
little difficulty.
cheers
andrew
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