Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()
Date: 2009-12-18 19:55:12
Message-ID: 20091218195512.GM4055@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> [ I can already hear somebody insisting on a yaml type :-( ]
>
> > Now that's a case where I think a couple of converter functions at most
> > should meet the need.
>
> Well, actually, now that you mention it: how much of a json type would
> be duplicative of the xml stuff? Would it be sufficient to provide
> json <-> xml converters and let the latter type do all the heavy lifting?
> (If so, this patch ought to be hstore_to_xml instead.)

But then there's the matter of overhead: how much would be wasted by
transforming to XML, and then parsing the XML back to transform to JSON?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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