Re: Basic JSON support

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Did you extract this from his work, or is this completely independent?
>>  I'm a bit disinclined to say we should just toss overboard all the
>> work that's already been done.  Why did you write a new patch?
>
> I read his patch and am inspired by the work, but the code is almost
> rewritten. As my previous comment,
>  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-08/msg01773.php
> I think it's not a good idea to develop JSON datatype based on the
> complex node links. The point of my patch is to simplify it.
>
> I'd like to encourage use of the simplified structure to implement
> his other works, including JSONPath.

I think that if we make a habit of rewriting the contributions of
first-time contributors in toto, we will have fewer second-time
contributors. I think it would have been a good idea to discuss this
on the list before you went and did it.

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