Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore
Date: 2009-09-14 23:01:26
Message-ID: 21750.1252969286@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I've just had a feature request from a client that we come up with a
>> way to enable JSON input into hstore. This would make hstore much
>> more useful for software developers.
>>
>> First question: would this go in the language driver, libpq, or the
>> backend? Thoughts?

> The backend, ideally in some pluggable way. XML, under proper
> circumstances, should work, as should YAML, etc.

Uh, hstore is a contrib module. Why aren't we talking about just some
more code in the contrib module? Adding anything to support a contrib
module in, say, libpq seems right out.

regards, tom lane

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