Re: machine-readable explain output

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: machine-readable explain output
Date: 2009-06-17 14:38:34
Message-ID: 200906171738.34568.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Tuesday 16 June 2009 22:51:37 Robert Haas wrote:
> I agree. I'm just not seeing the need for an *explicit*
> categorization contained within the data itself. For one thing, AIUI,
> that's the job of things like an XML Schema, which Andres Freund has
> already agreed to write, and I would expect that would be of some
> value to tool-writers, else why are we creating it?

A schema will just tell which documents are valid, not what they mean. That
is the job of XML ontologies, which are about as pie-in-the-sky as the
semantic web that they are supposed to end up building.

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