2010/11/9 David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>: > On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > >> hstore has similar functionality, but missing a some details and add >> lot of other functionality - it doesn't identify type of field. >> Personally - it is nothing what I like - but can be better than >> nothing. > > What are you going to do with the type once you have it? >
for example, you can use it for formatting, for explicit cast, for different serialization type - like JSON - without knowledge of type, you can't to build correct JSON value. So you can write a application with knowledge of type and you don't need to detect type from value, that isn't robust. Pavel > David > > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
