Re: hstore improvements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: hstore improvements?
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Msg-id 49C2A9DD.508@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: hstore improvements?  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
Responses Re: hstore improvements?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Re: hstore improvements?  (Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>)
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Andrew,

> One request I've had is to construct a record (of some supplied
> composite type) from an hstore.
>
> I'm not sure if this is even possible; I'm certainly not seeing a way
> to implement it. Am I missing something?

Well, presumably you'd try to match hstore tags against the "columns" of 
the composite type, and where a tag didn't exist, return NULL,and where 
one isn't in the composite type, ignore it.  All data would be TEXT.

--Josh




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