Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-18T19:49:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> [ I can already hear somebody insisting on a yaml type :-( ] > Now that's a case where I think a couple of converter functions at most > should meet the need. Well, actually, now that you mention it: how much of a json type would be duplicative of the xml stuff? Would it be sufficient to provide json <-> xml converters and let the latter type do all the heavy lifting? (If so, this patch ought to be hstore_to_xml instead.) regards, tom lane