Re: hstores in pl/python

On Monday 13 December 2010 16:01:35 Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2010/12/13 Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>:
> > On Monday 13 December 2010 15:27:48 Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >> 2010/12/13 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> >> > Hey Pavel,
> >> >
> >> > 2010/12/13 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> >> >
> >> >> Hello
> >> >>
> >> >> this is little bit offtopic, sorry.
> >> >>
> >> >> I am thinking, so we need a standard associative array support in
> >> >> core - like Perl, Python or Javascript. So, I don't think, so
> >> >> migration of hstore to core is good idea.
> >> >
> >> > Could you tell why in-core associative array support would be better
> >> > than in-core hstore support ?
> >> > We enjoying to use hstore and thinking that it is implemented great.
> >>
> >> Because hstore is PostgreSQL specific type. More well known syntax is
> >> better. More - who know, what is hstore? But everybody know, what is
> >> associative array or hash.
> >
> > So youre disturbed by the name?
>
> name and interface - hstore is designed as external module - a
> internal class can be designed different.
Could you actually name such a difference rather than pointing to some airily
hint of one? That would make it way much easier to see where you want to go.

Andres