Re: Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Why not? =A0Surely we can restrict EXPLAIN's set of key names to be saf=
e.
>
>> It seems to me that it would be easy for a future patch to break this
>> by accident.
>
> Really? =A0What likely key names would be in need of quoting? =A0I can't
> imagine accepting a field name that contains punctuation or leading
> or trailing whitespace, for example.

It seemed to me, in particular, that someone might use a # symbol,
like "# of Iterations".

Maybe I'm being paranoid.

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