Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()
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Msg-id 603c8f070912180851h7dba5e99g9404c90ef9d5d4ba@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Should we create a json type before adding all kinds of json formatted
>> data?  Or are we content with json as text?
>
> json_data_type++

What would that do for us?

I'm not opposed to it, but it seems like the more important thing
would be to provide functions or operators that can do things like
extract an array, extract a hash key, identify whether something is a
hash, list, or scalar, etc.

...Robert


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