Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-31T22:37:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Anyhow, that brings me back to the question I asked upthread, which is
> "Can/should we suck one of these libraries into our code base (and if
> so, which?) or do we need to add an analogue of --with-libxml so that
> we can link against an external library if present and omit the
> feature otherwise?".

Count me as -1 for "sucking in" any sizable amount of code for this.
I do not wish to be on the hook to maintain something like that.

			regards, tom lane