2010/12/14 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> 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. > > Maybe, but I'm sure they'd have far less application than hstore. > There's a reason why that's based on text and not some other type ... >
I don't think. For example - numeric array indexed with string is often use case. Now you have to use a PLperl hashs. Pavel > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
