Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I could go with that too. The question here is do we have any popular
> use-cases that aren't solved by that extension, but could be solved by
> simple user-level data formatting functions? I'm not real eager to add
> such a feature as an "if we build it they will come" speculation, but
> if anyone can point to solid use-cases besides handling CSV, then it
> probably is worth doing.
(I can't believe I'm saying this, but) It seems like xml output would be the
use case you're looking for.
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greg