Re: Patch for 8.5, transformationHook

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch for 8.5, transformationHook
Date: 2009-08-09 01:11:21
Message-ID: 1249780281.9256.823.camel@jdavis
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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> The JSON transformation provides functionality which is very similar
> to what we also offer for XML. I sort of think we ought to just
> provide that, rather than making it an add-on. I have found it to be
> a tremendously attractive alternative to XML.

It's worthwhile to think about how we can fit our special cases into
general APIs -- particularly when we have two similar special cases like
JSON and XML.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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