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> > I think that having a file format that enables simple means to
> > achieve simple (but specialized) ends is essential to a good
> > toolkit.
> 
> Any SQL implementation refutes that.  Nobody touches the SQL data file
> itself, they all go through a SQL interpreter that accesses the data
> on their behalf.  Specialized ends are implemented on top of this
> interpreter.
> 
> Granted, this means we'd need a well-defined way to do pretty much
> anything through whatever means we provide, but saying "access to the
> file is required" is just plain wrong.  "Access to the data" is a more
> appropriate requirement, but making the data file tweakable is a weak
> solution to that - no controls, no validation, etc.

A good start would b e to factor out the specialized ends.