Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore
Date: 2009-09-14 23:45:46
Message-ID: 603c8f070909141645u81195cbq89ad1749656ff484@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:42 PM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>>> What's wrong with just using a variant of the type input function? With
>>> a parameterized insert, it doesn't seem like it's really placing much of
>>> a burden on the application.
>>
>> Agreed, I was thinking the same thing.
>
> And the type output function, too. Not sure how you'd configure that,
> though.

Well I don't think you really need any them to BE the type
input/output functions. You just need

hstore_to_json(hstore) returns text
json_to_hstore(text) returns json

Insert into your query where appropriate.

...Robert

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