Re: jsonb and nested hstore

Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> > new patch attached, change pushed to github.
>
> > + /* GUC variables */
> > + static bool pretty_print_var = false;
> > + #define SET_PRETTY_PRINT_VAR(x) ((pretty_print_var) ? \
> > + ((x) | PrettyPrint) : (x))
>
> I think that this is not a great idea. I think that we should do away
> with the GUC, but keep the function hstore_print() so we can pretty
> print that way. I don't believe that this falls afoul of the usual
> obvious reasons for not varying the behavior of IO routines with a
> GUC, since it only varies whitespace, but it is surely pretty
> questionable to have this GUC's setting vary the output of hstore_out,
> an IMMUTABLE function.

I don't see this in the submitted patch. What's going on?

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