On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > In libxml-enabled builds at least, this could presumably be done fairly > easily via the XML functions, especially if we get XSLT processing into the > core XML functionality as I hope we can do this release. In fact, the > ability to leverage existing XML functionality to munge the output is the > thing that swings me in favor of XML as the machine readable output format > instead of JSON, since we don't have and aren't terribly likely to get an > inbuilt JSON parser. It means we wouldn't need some external tool at all.
I was thinking something similar, but from the pgAdmin perspective. We already use libxml2, but JSON would introduce another dependency for us. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
