[HACKERS] Hstore 2.0 patch

2014-01-20 Thread Rami Grossman
Hi everyone,

Is it possible to add the hstore 2.0 patch (and later the json solution) as
an extension for 9.3 right now, so we'll not have to wait for 9.4

I can say that this patch is very important for my organisation's large
project, they won't approve it as a patch but as extension it will go.

Thanks for your important work!

Rami


Re: [HACKERS] Hstore 2.0 patch

2014-01-20 Thread Andrew Dunstan


On 01/19/2014 10:31 PM, Rami Grossman wrote:

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to add the hstore 2.0 patch (and later the json 
solution) as an extension for 9.3 right now, so we'll not have to wait 
for 9.4


I can say that this patch is very important for my organisation's 
large project, they won't approve it as a patch but as extension it 
will go.


Thanks for your important work!




In the past I have backported some of the json work as extensions. 
However, that has been done as paid work at commercial rates.


Furthermore it isn't always 100% doable. Backporting types (like jsonb) 
is particularly troublesome, since a type created by an extension 
normally can not be upgradable to a builtin type. That means playing 
some pretty ugly tricks. What is more, we can't even play those tricks 
until we know for sure what the builtin type Oid will be, which we do 
not yet know, as the patch has not been committed.


My intention at least this time around has been not to backport.

cheers

andrew



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