Re: jsonb and nested hstore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore
Date: 2014-03-06 15:46:47
Message-ID: 11508.1394120807@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> However, if the new hstore type (compatible with the old one) is the
> wrapper around jsonb, rather than the other way around, I don't see any
> problem with it at all. Most future users are almost certainly going to use
> the json interfaces, but we don't want to leave upgraded users behind. (But
> of course it has to actually maintain backwards compatibility for that
> argument to hold)

Yeah --- all of this turns on whether hstore improvements can be 100%
upwards compatible or not. If they are, I don't object to including them;
I'd have said it was wasted effort, but if the work is already done then
that's moot.

regards, tom lane

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