On 3/3/15 9:49 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Yeah. One thought though is that I don't think we need the "data" layer
>> in your proposal; that is, I'd flatten the representation to something
>> more like
>>
>> {
>> oid => 2249,
>> oiddefine => 'CSTRINGOID',
>> typname => 'cstring',
>> typlen => -2,
>> typbyval => 1,
>> ...
>> }
>
> Even this promises to vastly increase the number of lines in the file,
I think lines are cheap. Columns are much harder to deal with.
> and make it harder to compare entries by grepping out some common
> substring.
Could you give an example of the sort of thing you wish to do?