Re: patch: Add JSON datatype to PostgreSQL (GSoC, WIP)

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:39:37PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 08/11/2010 07:33 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> >>I would be curious to the benefit of putting it in core. I have no
> >>problem with the type but in core?
> >If it's not in core, the vast majority of users will not have it
> >installed, and nothing, in core or otherwise, will be able to count on
> >it.
>
> You could say that about almost any feature. PostgreSQL is designed
> to be modular, and we can hardly credibly use that as an argument
> against ourselves.
>
> A convincing argument would be that there is another feature we want
> in core that needs or at least could benefit from it.

EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON) would benefit right away, as its overall code
would be much more likely to be (and stay) correct.

Cheers,
David.
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