| From: | Benedikt Grundmann <bgrundmann(at)janestreet(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Typed hstore proposal |
| Date: | 2011-12-22 15:51:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20111222155148.GW7768@ldn-qws-004.delacy.com |
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On 22/12/11 10:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" <johann(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I mean to create a typed hstore, called tstore for now.
>
> Um ... what is the point of this, exactly? From what I've seen, most
> applications for hstore are pretty happy with the fact that hstore is
> only weakly typed, and if an entry *is* an integer, or a float, or
> whatever else, it's not hard to cast to and from text as needed.
More over it is also easy with the current hstore to add constraints like this:
"contracts_is_an_integer" CHECK ((tags -> 'contracts'::text) ~ '^[0-9]+$'::text)
to ensure that it actually is.
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