Re: Josh's Comments on Hstore / Jsonb

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM, john.tiger <john(dot)tigernassau(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Somehow my comments didn't go thru on the soup blog but wanted to throw in
> more support for this patch
>
> Josh, you are so right on the money. An ACID compliant db that serves JSON
> is great. Sorry I didn't make SCALE this year to hear the PG talks and stop
> by and say hi. Maybe at Open West ? We are incorporating Postgres JSON
> served from Nodejs (using Express to offer the REST side) into several new
> products. For modern web apps, JSON just makes so much sense.
>
> Yes, the Node driver needs some work - hopefully we can contribute as we
> work more with it. I'm particularly interested in working offline, then
> synching (vis-a-vis couch/pouch). If anyone else is working on this issue
> please feel free to touch base.

Aside: I also have basically completely switched to node.js/express +
postgres (via 'node-postgres'). It's absolutely fantastic. Besides
the obvious great and getting better json support, you have other
postgres-ism that mesh very well with node: asynchronous notification
for example.

merlin