Re: Some belated patch review for "Buffers" explain analyze patch

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> I sort of assumed we might get some feedback from pgadmin or other
> >> tool writers between the time this was committed six months ago and
> >> now, but I haven't seen a single message from anyone who has actually
> >> tried to write a tool.  As you imply, I think it will be very hard to
> >> change the format once this is released.  At this point I think we may
> >> be stuck with using this format and hoping that it doesn't suck too
> >> badly.
> >
> > We can still hope that some feedback comes in during beta.  I think we
> > should be willing to adjust the output schema even late in beta, if
> > someone proposes a better idea.
>
> I'm not opposed to that in principal, but in practice the PGadmin
> folks may not like us very much if we change things too drastically if
> they've got it working the way we had it... we'll just have to see
> what reports we get, I suppose.

Just talked to Dave Page on IM. They haven't written any code to deal
with the XML format yet, and doesn't sound like they are eager to start
right now, given that they already have the parser for the text format.

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