Plain text rocks

  • Schemas
  • Lowest common denominator
  • Use whenever possible

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Strengths

 
  • Easy to convert to other forms
  • Human-readable
  • Easy to transport
  • Outlives applications
  • HTML, XML, custom
  • Easier to port to other databases (e.g. if you don't use PostgreSQL yet)
  • Easy for all programs to parse it
  • Easy to version control and diff
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