Re: jsonb and nested hstore

On 03/05/2014 11:34 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, exactly what features are missing from jsonb
>> today that are available with hstore? How long would it take to
>> copy-and-paste all that code, if someone were to decide to do the
>> work instead of argue about it?
> Somewhere upthread, Peter seemed to estimate it at a day, if I
> understood correctly. If that's accurate, I'm certainly behind getting
> it done and in and moving on. I'm sure no one particularly likes a
> bunch of copy/pasteing of code, but if it would get us to the point of
> having a really working jsonb that everyone is happy with, I'm all for
> it.
>
> It's not clear how much different it would be if we waited til 9.5
> either- do we anticipate a lot of code changes beyond the copy/paste for
> these?
>
>

I think that was my estimate, but Peter did offer to do it. He certainly
asserted that the effort required would not be great. I'm all for taking
up his offer.

Incidentally, this would probably have been done quite weeks ago if
people had not objected to my doing any more on the feature. Of course
missing the GIN/GIST ops was not part of the design. Quite the contrary.

cheers

andrew