Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
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 22:55:52
Message-ID: 4AAEC9F8.5060302@dunslane.net
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Hackers,
>>
>> 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.
>
>
>

The way the standard specifies SQL/XML requires grammar support. That
means it can't really be pluggable. We've been over this before.

chjeers

andrew

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