On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 21:18 -0700, Daniel Farina wrote: >> The gap between >> pre-JSON-in-the-standard-library in Python, Ruby, et al and >> post-JSON-in-stdlib was much smaller. > > Except in Python they renamed the thing.
By 'smaller' I mean the difference in capability between promoted to the Python stdlib is comparatively smaller than data types and operators from being promoted to core in Postgres, and the main reason for that is that people can compose on top of Postgres-core functionality, but those extensions themselves are not very useful in further composition. The extensibility at the first level is great. There exists an entirely livable alternative-future/present where Python never promoted the (simple)json library into the stdlib. The same could not be said for Postgres extensions as they exist today. -- fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
