Re: hstores in pl/python

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hstores in pl/python
Date: 2010-12-14 17:25:14
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.1012142023140.12632@sn.sai.msu.ru
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>
>
> On 12/14/2010 12:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> I haven't actually figured out what the benefit would be, other than
>>> buzzword compliance and a chance to invent some random nonstandard
>>> syntax. If the element values all have to be the same type, you've
>>> basically got hstore.
>> Not exactly, because in hstore all the element values have to be,
>> specifically, text. Having hstores of other kinds of objects would,
>> presumably, be useful.
>>
>
> I love hstore, and I've used it a lot, but I don't think there's much future
> in doing this. This is part of what JSON would buy us, isn't it?

Just wondering about JSON, are there anyone who signed already to work on JSON
or it's just a theoretical discussions ? If so, I agree, having JSON
properly implemented and simple wrapper for hstore just for compatibility, would
be very nice.

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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