On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I agree; we make bigger changes than this all the time.
>>
>> No, we don't.
>
> Alright, do we want to go down the road of adding new things to the
> XML/JSON/YAML/Whatever-else format that isn't displayed in the TEXT
> version, to avoid this concern?
No, because, for one thing, the text output is what people are going
to send me when they want me to fix their crap. If the information
isn't there, I lose. And no, I don't want them to send me the XML.
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