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 ...
Sure. You can smash anything to a string, and it's often a very practical way to go, though not always. I am not necessarily expressing any interest in building such a facility, just pointing one way that it might hypothetically have an advantage over hstore. Whether it's worth pursuing is another question. -- 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
