me too, for all the reasons you listed, that's why I stopped. I learned the pg protocol and saw it didn't map very well. I couldn't see what one would gain over writing raw SQL to a file. Reading results back is a different problem.Ok... I read it somewhere in the archives of the list. But I found it a little "inadeguate":
ah xml, the ultimate 2d grid ! I'm missing what you mean.
XML is a tree format, SQL tables are multiple 2d grids.
xlmfs is bugged?
Nope,