On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > Which looks very good.
Love having the start here. I forwarded this message to Claes Jakobsson, creator of the jansson-using pg-json extension. He’s a bit less supportive. He gave me permission to quote him here: > Frankly I see the inclusion of a JSON datatype in core as unnecessary. Stuff > should be moved out of core rather than in, as we do in Perl. Also, does this > patch mean that the 'json' type is forever claimed and can't be replaced by > extensions? > > There's little reason to reimplement JSON parsing, comparision and other > routines when there's a multitude of already good libraries. Personally, I think that there really should be a core key/value-type data type, and json is probably the best possible choice, absent a SQL-standard-mandated type (which would probably suck anyway). But I think it worthwhile to hear alternate points of view, and this isn't far from what Jan said last week. Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
