Re: hstore improvements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: hstore improvements?
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Msg-id 20090313191633.GA20676@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: hstore improvements?  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: hstore improvements?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Andrew Gierth wrote:
>>> I have a patch almost done that adds some obvious but currently
>>> missing functionality to hstore, specifically the ability to construct
>>> an hstore from a record, and the ability to construct one from a pair
>>> of arrays.
>>>
>>> If there's any other features that people find notably missing from
>>> hstore, I could stick them in too; any requests?
>>
>> Optionally compressing the values would be nice ...
>
> The whole Datum will be toasted/compressed if it gets large enough. Is  
> that not enough?

It doesn't always gets large enough, and there's no way to control that.

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