Re: hstores in pl/python - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: hstores in pl/python
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In response to Re: hstores in pl/python  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: hstores in pl/python  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Re: hstores in pl/python  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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On 12/14/2010 12:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I haven't actually figured out what the benefit would be, other than
>> buzzword compliance and a chance to invent some random nonstandard
>> syntax.  If the element values all have to be the same type, you've
>> basically got hstore.
> Not exactly, because in hstore all the element values have to be,
> specifically, text.  Having hstores of other kinds of objects would,
> presumably, be useful.
>

I love hstore, and I've used it a lot, but I don't think there's much 
future in doing this. This is part of what JSON would buy us, isn't it?

cheers

andrew


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