Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:55:52PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Hackers,
>>>
>>> I've just had a feature request from a client that we come up with
>>> a way to enable JSON input into hstore. This would make hstore
>>> much more useful for software developers.
>>>
>>> First question: would this go in the language driver, libpq, or
>>> the backend? Thoughts?
>>
>> The backend, ideally in some pluggable way. XML, under proper
>> circumstances, should work, as should YAML, etc.
>
> The way the standard specifies SQL/XML requires grammar support.
> That means it can't really be pluggable. We've been over this
> before.

I haven't found anything about hstore in the standard, so I'm not sure
how this applies.

Cheers,
David.
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