Re: hstores in pl/python

2010/12/13 Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>:
> On Monday 13 December 2010 15:27:48 Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> 2010/12/13 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> > Hey Pavel,
>> >
>> > 2010/12/13 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> >
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> this is little bit offtopic, sorry.
>> >>
>> >> I am thinking, so we need a standard associative array support in core
>> >> - like Perl, Python or Javascript. So, I don't think, so migration of
>> >> hstore to core is good idea.
>> >
>> > Could you tell why in-core associative array support would be better
>> > than in-core hstore support ?
>> > We enjoying to use hstore and thinking that it is implemented great.
>>
>> Because hstore is PostgreSQL specific type. More well known syntax is
>> better. More - who know, what is hstore? But everybody know, what is
>> associative array or hash.
> So youre disturbed by the name?
>

name and interface - hstore is designed as external module - a
internal class can be designed different.

Pavel

> Andres
>