On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Joseph Adams
> <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Attached is a patch that adds a 'json' contrib module. Although we
>> may want a built-in JSON data type in the near future, making it a
>> module (for the time being) has a couple advantages:
>
> Is this something you'd hope to get committed at some point, or do you
> plan to maintain it as an independent project?
I'm hoping to get it committed at some point, perhaps as a module
soon, and a built-in later. Plenty of people are still waiting for
JSON data type support, for example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4995945/optimize-escape-json-in-postgresql-9-0
