Re: Simple row serialization?

On 27/01/2008, tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de <tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:32:35PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> [...]
> > >Or you could use an hstore (see contrib).
> >
> > Doesn't seem applicable.
>
> Have a closer look: it might :-)

I found these documents on hstore:

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/hstore.html
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/Hstore

From them, it seems "hstore" is another datatype (as in:
'a=>b'::hstore), which sounds good (though if it was me I'd have
picked a different name for it, like "dict" or "hashmap" :) ) for
storing both field names and their values, but I don't see a way to
convert a row/record passed to a trigger to a hstore.