Re: Bootstrap DATA is a pita

On 21/02/15 04:22, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I violently support this proposal.
>
>> Maybe something rougly like:
>>
>> # pg_type.data
>> CatalogData(
>> 'pg_type',
>> [
>> {
>> oid => 2249,
>> data => {typname => 'cstring', typlen => -2, typbyval => 1, fake => '...'},
>> oiddefine => 'CSTRINGOID'
>> }
>> ]
>> );
>
> One concern I have with this is that in my experience different tools
> and editors have vastly different ideas on how to format these kinds of
> nested structures. I'd try out YAML, or even a homemade fake YAML over
> this.
>

+1 for the idea and +1 for YAML(-like) syntax.

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