Hello,
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Does anybody have an advice on what data type
>> to use best for such a JSON "string"?
>>
>> Should I take varchar, text or bytea.
>>
>> And for the latter - how to handle it in Perl
>> if I currently use DBI and DBD::Pg?
>>
>> For PHP I probably should use pg_(un)escape_bytea?
>>
>> (And does this all work with "?" placholders?)
>
> upgrade your database and use the new json type/features.
do you mean PostgreSQL 9.x?
I don't see anything "json" at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/datatype.html
or in the search (besides something in "contrib")?
And does it work well with Perl 5.10 and PHP 5.3?
My hoster offers CentOS 6.x only
Regards
Alex