Re: jsonb and nested hstore - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: jsonb and nested hstore
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Msg-id 53191EC1.7070407@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: jsonb and nested hstore  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 03/06/2014 12:58 PM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>
>> The actual storage upgrade of hstore-->hstore2 is fairly painless from
>> the user perspective; they don't have to do anything.  The problem is
>> that the input/output strings are different, something which I didn't
>> think to check for (and Peter did), and which will break applications
>> relying on Hstore, since the drivers which support Hstore (like
>> psycopg2) rely on string-parsing to convert it.  I haven't
>> regression-tested hstore2 against psycopg2 since I don't have a good
>> test, but that would be a useful thing to do.
> 
> Hello, psycopg developer here. Not following the entire thread as it's
> quite articulated and not of my direct interest (nor comprehension).
> But if you throw at me a few test cases I can make sure psycopg can
> parse them much before hstore2 is released.

Looks like that won't be necessary, Daniele.  But thanks for speaking up!

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com



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