On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 06:57:18PM -0400, Joseph Adams wrote: > Update: I'm in the middle of cleaning up the JSON code ( > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=json-datatype.git;a=summary if you > want to see the very latest ), so I haven't addressed all of the major > problems with it yet. > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > - I was under the impression that we wanted EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON) to > > return type json, but that's obviously not going to be possible if all > > of this is contrib. We could (a) move it all into core, (b) move the > > type itself and its input and output functions into core and leave the > > rest in contrib [or something along those lines], or (c) give up using > > it as the return type for EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON). > > I've been developing it as a contrib module because: > * I'd imagine it's easier than developing it as a built-in datatype > right away (e.g. editing a .sql.in file versus editing pg_type.h ). > * As a module, it has PGXS support, so people can try it out right > away rather than having to recompile PostgreSQL. > > I, for one, think it would be great if the JSON datatype were all in > core :-) However, if and how much JSON code should go into core is up > for discussion. Thoughts, anyone?
+1 for putting it in core in 9.1 :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
