Re: jsonb and nested hstore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore
Date: 2014-03-05 17:19:16
Message-ID: 15394.1394039956@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> While there's certainly much to be said for the idea that jsonb should be
>> an extension, I don't think we have the technology to package it as a
>> *separate* extension; it'd have to be included in the hstore extension.

> I disagree with that. The shared C bits can live inside the core
> system and the SQL level hooks and extension specific behaviors could
> live in an extension.

That approach abandons every bit of value in an extension, no?
You certainly don't get to fix bugs outside a core-system release cycle.

regards, tom lane

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