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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