Re: Json(b) extension

>>> If your goal is to make this functionality available as soon as
possible to users, an external extension is the way to go.
No, my primary goal is to create the useful contrib extension and help to
the community =)
So, I also want to do it as a pgxn extension.

On 25 April 2014 00:11, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> On 04/24/2014 03:46 AM, Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As you know, PostgreSQL introduced Json(b) support at the 9.4 version
> [1],
> > and hstore v2.0 saved in separate repository [2]. But although PostgreSQL
> > has this support at the core level, there are many useful functions,
> which
> > wasn't ported to Json(b) from hstore v2.0 and json. Here [3], I've made a
> > review of the missing Json(b) functions, which can be implemented. This
> > list can be updated in the future, of course. I want to implement the
> > missing functions in the form of extension (e.g. contrib/jsonx).
>
> Thanks for making this list!
>
> >
> > What do you think about this?
>
> I think you should do it as a pgxn extension, for now. For it to be in
> contrib/ or core, we'd need to argue extensively about the names of
> operators and functions, which will take a while. If your goal is to
> make this functionality available as soon as possible to users, an
> external extension is the way to go.
>
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