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Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

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From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-12-31T16:00:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Dec 31, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> I think the primary use will be to load a JSON value into Perl or Python
> and process it there.  So a json type that doesn't have any interesting
> operators doesn't sound useless to me.  The features I would like to get
> out of it are input validation and encoding handling and smooth
> integration with said languages.

What about access to various parts of a JSON data structure? Or is that just asking for too much trouble up-front?

Best,

David