Re: hstores in pl/python

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.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

2010/12/13 Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>:
> It would be cool to be able to transparently use hstores as Python
> dictionaries and vice versa. It would be easy enough with hstore as a
> core type, but with hstore as an addon it's not that easy.
>
> There was talk about including hstore in core, is there still chance for
> that to happen in 9.1? I'd like to include hstore<->dict handling, but
> with hstore out-of-core the only half-sane way I see is:
>  * hack PL/Python's makefile to add -Icontrib/hstore (yuck!)
>  * create an extension module for Python that knows how to handle
> hstores that would live next to plpython.so
>  * install it in $libdir on make install
>  * when PL/Python receives or is asked to create an hstore, load the
> extension module and use it to parse the value (ugly, probably slow)
>  * the module would also have to make sure hstore.so is loaded in the
> database, which in itself is not pretty, as it would refer to
> hstore_in/out symbols
>
> I wrote a module that can be used with current PL/Python to simplify
> hstore handling (https://github.com/wulczer/pyhstore), but it suffers
> from most of the aforementioned problems, and on top of that you get
> hstore->text->dict instead of just hstore->dict, which sucks.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
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