On Jul 22, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> JSON is different because the representation you get is exactly the
> representation you may want to send to the the client (probably over
> HTTP) and the conversion text->json objects->text uses quite a bit of
> cpu/memory.
If you want the text version, you can ask for the text version; I don't think it's worth breaking an existing API over. We already have a precedent here in hstore.
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