Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane escribió:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> [ I can already hear somebody insisting on a yaml type :-( ]
> 
> > Now that's a case where I think a couple of converter functions at most 
> > should meet the need.
> 
> Well, actually, now that you mention it: how much of a json type would
> be duplicative of the xml stuff?  Would it be sufficient to provide
> json <-> xml converters and let the latter type do all the heavy lifting?
> (If so, this patch ought to be hstore_to_xml instead.)

But then there's the matter of overhead: how much would be wasted by
transforming to XML, and then parsing the XML back to transform to JSON?

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