On 2020-Apr-14, David Steele wrote: > On 4/14/20 12:56 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > > Hmm, did David suggest that before? I don't recall for sure. I think > > he had some suggestion, but I'm not sure if it was the same one. > > "I'm also partial to using epoch time in the manifest because it is > generally easier for programs to work with. But, human-readable doesn't > suck, either."
Ugh. If you go down that road, why write human-readable contents at all? You may as well just use a binary format. But that's a very slippery slope and you won't like to be in the bottom -- I don't see what that gains you. It's not like it's a lot of work to parse a timestamp in a non-internationalized well-defined human-readable format. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
