Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()
Date: 2010-01-04 00:30:05
Message-ID: 4B41368D.60906@dunslane.net
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Hitoshi Harada wrote:
> 2010/1/4 David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>:
>
>> On Jan 3, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We allow composites as fields. The biggest mismatch in the type model is probably w.r.t arrays. JSON arrays can be heterogenous and non-rectangular, AIUI.
>>>
>> Cool, that sounds right.
>>
>
> Does it mean you should create composite type to create anonymous JSON?
>
>

No, not in the least. We should still store JSON as text. We should
simply be able to convert a JSON value to a record of an existing type
(providing it has the right shape) and a record (of any shape) to JSON.

cheers

andrew

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