On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:26:13PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > What _would_ be interesting is to move all the hstore code into core,
> > and have hstore contrib just call the hstore core parts. That way, you
> > have one copy of the code, it is shared with JSONB, but hstore remains
> > as an extension that you can change or remove later.
>
> That seems like an approach possibly worth investigating. It's not
> too different from what we did when we moved text search into core.
> The basic idea seems to be that we want jsonb in core, and we expect
> it to replace hstore, but we can't get just get rid of hstore because
> it has too many users.
Yes. It eliminates the problem of code duplication, but keeps hstore in
contrib for flexibility and compatibility.
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