| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: hstores in pl/python |
| Date: | 2010-12-14 17:12:43 |
| Message-ID: | 14980.1292346763@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> 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.
Maybe, but I'm sure they'd have far less application than hstore.
There's a reason why that's based on text and not some other type ...
regards, tom lane
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