Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I could go with that too. The question here is do we have any popular >> use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by >> simple user-level data formatting functions?
> (I can't believe I'm saying this, but) It seems like xml output would be the > use case you're looking for. Does that fall into the category of stuff that could be supported by the kind of API we're talking about? I should think that XML would need a much more global view of the data, not just line-by-line reformatting. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings