-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Sent by mistake to Robert Haas only at first try. No cure for fat fingers, I guess]
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 04:05:18PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: [...] > I think XML output format is a complete distraction from the real > issue here, which is that there are certain pieces of information that > are sometimes useful but are not useful enough to justify including > them in the EXPLAIN output 100% of the time. By just punting all that > stuff to EXPLAIN XML, we're just saying that we're not interested in > creating a workable set of options to allow users to pick and choose > the information they care about - so instead we're going to dump a > huge chunk of unreadable XML and then make it the user's problem to > find a tool that will extract the details that they care about. Boo, > hiss. +1 In my experience, this happens with "XML the data description language" many times, but I haven' seen the problem as well-stated as in your mail. Hard for humans to read, hard for machines to read, and often trying to solve a problem it can't (in this case, selecting the needed information _beforehand_). Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKGntjBcgs9XrR2kYRAk1/AJ4rnZFnU4PFM8AJkaYYYLRInYHJDQCbBbt2 lTwxydBBnXP1MgDxz+vcpM8= =o2qW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
