On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 17:31 +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 17:11 +0200, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > That will just make things worse. And it will break if the XML includes > > any expression that contains a line break. > > Then escape the expressions using CDATA or such... I'm sure it would be > possible to make sure it's one line and rely on that. That's part of > being machine readable, being able to rely on getting it at all without > too much parsing magic...
Looks like today I'm talking consistently stupid... CDATA of course won't help in avoiding line breaks, but it would be still possible to define an XML entity for that. This starts to be too complicated anyway, so probably not worth it. In any case I still think making it easy for a tool to extract/parse the information should be higher priority than human readability - because the information itself is not really human readable without external help except for simple queries, and I doubt the main use case is simple queries. Cheers, Csaba. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
