| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: jsonb and nested hstore |
| Date: | 2014-03-06 16:09:12 |
| Message-ID: | 53189DA8.5040407@dunslane.net |
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On 03/06/2014 10:46 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> However, if the new hstore type (compatible with the old one) is the
>> wrapper around jsonb, rather than the other way around, I don't see any
>> problem with it at all. Most future users are almost certainly going to use
>> the json interfaces, but we don't want to leave upgraded users behind. (But
>> of course it has to actually maintain backwards compatibility for that
>> argument to hold)
> Yeah --- all of this turns on whether hstore improvements can be 100%
> upwards compatible or not. If they are, I don't object to including them;
> I'd have said it was wasted effort, but if the work is already done then
> that's moot.
Clearly there are people who want it, or else they would not have
sponsored the work.
We seem to have an emerging consensus on the compatibility issue.
cheers
andrew
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