Re: jsonb and nested hstore

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore
Date: 2014-02-26 04:50:42
Message-ID: 20140226045041.GL2921@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Peter Geoghegan (pg(at)heroku(dot)com) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Please also highlight that any change will require a full table rewrite
> > with an exclusive lock, so data type choices on larger tables may be
> > hard to change later.
>
> It sure looks like they're binary-coercible to me:
>
> + CREATE CAST (hstore AS jsonb)
> + WITHOUT FUNCTION AS IMPLICIT;
> +
> + CREATE CAST (jsonb AS hstore)
> + WITHOUT FUNCTION AS IMPLICIT;
>
> Is this okay?

Err, I'm not following this thread all *that* closely, but I was pretty
sure the issue was json vs. jsonb, and I'd be mighty confused as to wtf
was going on if those were binary-coercible...

Thanks,

Stephen

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