Re: additional json functionality

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: additional json functionality
Date: 2013-11-20 17:43:41
Message-ID: 528CF4CD.9080304@agliodbs.com
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On 11/20/2013 04:52 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I confess to being a bit perplexed by why we want hstore and json to
> share a common binary format. hstore doesn't store hierarchical data;
> json does. If we design a binary format for json, doesn't that just
> obsolete store? Why go to a lot of trouble to extend our home-grown
> format if we've got a standard format to plug into?

See hstore2 patch from Teodor. That's what we're talking about, not
hstore1, which as you point out is non-heirarchical.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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