Re: hstores in pl/python

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hstores in pl/python
Date: 2010-12-14 16:52:49
Message-ID: 14588.1292345569@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On mn, 2010-12-13 at 08:50 +0100, Jan Urbaski wrote:
>> 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.

> I have been thinking about this class of problems for a while. I think
> the proper fix is to have a user-definable mapping between types and
> languages. It would be another pair of input/output functions,
> essentially.

Interesting thought, but it still leaves you needing to solve the
problem of interconnecting two optional addons ...

regards, tom lane

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