| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Major features of 9.0? |
| Date: | 2010-02-22 20:45:40 |
| Message-ID: | 201002221545.41333.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net |
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On Tuesday 16 February 2010 17:02:39 Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Josh Berkus:
> >> Isn't hstore key/value pair data, rather than schema-less.
> >
> > Well, when the "NoSQL" people talk about "schemaless", that's what they
> > mean.
>
> Some of them have got arbitrarily nested documents involving
> sequences, booleans, sequences of string/document pairs, strings, and
> floats. Positioning PostgreSQL's simple key/value support against
> that could be a PR mistake. 8-)
A better way to look at it is "improved support for storing semi-structured
and un-structured data". Because we have pretty good support for that really,
but these changes should make that somewhat better.
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Robert Treat
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