On 02/28/2014 09:54 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 01:28 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> How we got here is not the point. All that matters is what's going to
>> happen from here. Here are the facts as I see them:
>
> Well, it certainly matters if we want it in this release.
>
> As far as I can tell, moving jsonb to contrib basically requires
> rewriting a bunch of code, without actually fixing any of the bugs which
> have been discussed in the more technical reviews. I'm really unclear
> what, at this point, moving jsonb to /contrib would improve.
It's also make it a lot harder to use in other extensions, something
that's already an issue with hstore.
It should be a core type.
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