2010/12/14 Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>: > 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?
Well, JSON would give you numbers and booleans, but that's a pretty small subset of all the types in the universe. I think the main thing JSON would give you is hierarchical structure. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
