Dave Page wrote: > 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.
Actually, I think a number of users would be *very* happy if we had a builtin JSON parser. I'm unsure on how feasible that is though. > I was thinking something similar, but from the pgAdmin perspective. We > already use libxml2, but JSON would introduce another dependency for > us. Yeah, but probably not a huge one. There is one for wx, but I don't think it's included by default. -- Magnus Hagander Self: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
