On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:02:39AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> goals may be in conflict; we'll have to pick something.
> >
> > Note that parsing COPYs is a major PITA from most languages...
> >
> > Perhaps we should make the default output json instead? With every
> > action terminated by a nullbyte?
> > That's probably easier to parse from various scripting languages than
> > anything else.
>
> I could go for that. It's not quite as compact as I might hope, but
> JSON does seem to make people awfully happy.
>
> --
> Robert Haas
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Feeding such a JSON stream into a compression algorithm like lz4 or
snappy should result in a pretty compact stream. The latest lz4 updates
also have ability to use a pre-existing dictionary which would really
help remove the redundant pieces.
Regards,
Ken