Re: JSON Patch for PostgreSQL - BSON Support? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

> but BSON pidgenholes numeric values to either double, int32, int64, or
> a 12-byte MongoDB Object ID.  Thus, for people who expect JSON to be
> able to hold arbitrary-precision numbers (which the JSON data type in
> my patch can), using BSON for transfer or storage will violate that
> expectation.

Good lord.  I'd suggest that maybe we wait for BSON v. 2.0 instead.

Is BSON even any kind of a standard?

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