On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 14:58, River Tarnell river@wikimedia.org wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- the web interface would display the result of the query in a nice, easy-to-read table (and probably with some kind of XML or CSV export feature).
"Easy-to-read" is commonly hard or sometimes even impossible to do with pure SQL, so it should have a place for code to transform the data to display it more efficiently. Top100 is a simple example, but what about queries that, say, will have a "type" column that is percepted much better if it was a color line, or a "status" column with sort of a progress bar? (I can't think of such a task right now, but I'm certain that the issue would arise at some point anyway.)
— Kalan