Re: JSON Patch for PostgreSQL - BSON Support?

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> I knew there would be a lot of critters crawling out as soon as we
>> turned over this rock. Which other data-formats-of-the-week shall
>> we immortalize as core PG types?
>>
>
> PER-encoded ASN.1, for when you really need something human-readable? :-)
>

I like to prioritize with "hits on Google" as a proxy for popularity:

XML: 341M
CSV: 132M
JSON: 96M
YAML: 6M
ASN.1: 1.1M
BSON: 130K
"Protocol Buffers": 86K
OGDL: 45K

I think there's a strong case to add JSON, as it may very well be the
most popular data->text serialization format out there not yet
supported. It's certainly beyond a format of the week at this point.

"XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't
using enough of it." - Chris Maden

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