xtdb 2023-03-02 | Slack Archive

ag06:03:41

I don't know what took me so long, but I just played a bit with xtdb and holy frijole, that shit is so awesome. I just can't stop loving it. Hey folks, since I'm a super-fresh nub, can I ask like a totally stupid question? So, I was digging through basic tutorial projects and they use rocks or lmbd, or whatever the default node uses, basically it creates a bunch of files on disk that I can't inspect. So of course, the first thing I attempted to do is that I figured out jdbc and hook it up to sqlite. Submitted a few transactions, looked into the db file. And guess what? It wrote in a bunch of blobs. So my question is, is there a way to make it write a human-readable format? I just want to be able to inspect the data.

tatut06:03:29

the output of q and pull is human readable, not the storage format

tatut06:03:50

likewise you wouldn’t be reading postgresql wal files

ag06:03:22

> the output of q and pull Yah, I know that. The point is, I want to visually explore the data without querying it. But, I guess, as I said "super stupid question".. lol

refset17:03:36

hey @U0G75ARHC if you are really curious about what's in the blobs, we're using https://github.com/ptaoussanis/nippy extensively so decoding should be straightforward

ag18:03:21

Oh, nice. Thank you Jeremy.