Robert Haas wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimZ5FJ8Q8GY7dq1BioN1R92GRs-p6Tj5yFpzXt1@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><prewrap="">On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Tom Lane <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us"><tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us></a>wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">I knew
therewould be a lot of critters crawling out as soon as we
turned over this rock. Which other data-formats-of-the-week shall
we immortalize as core PG types? </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
PER-encoded ASN.1, for when you really need something human-readable? :-) </pre></blockquote><br /> I like to
prioritizewith "hits on Google" as a proxy for popularity:<br /><br /> XML: 341M<br /> CSV: 132M<br /> JSON: 96M<br
/>YAML: 6M<br /> ASN.1: 1.1M<br /> BSON: 130K<br /> "Protocol Buffers": 86K<br /> OGDL: 45K<br /><br /> I think
there'sa strong case to add JSON, as it may very well be the most popular data->text serialization format out there
notyet supported. It's certainly beyond a format of the week at this point.<br /><br /> "XML is like violence: if it
doesn'tsolve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden <br /><br /><pre class="moz-signature"
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