Re: jsonb and nested hstore

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jsonb and nested hstore
Date: 2014-03-06 09:32:54
Message-ID: 531840C6.3070608@sigaev.ru
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> In what sense are we really stopping hstore development if hstore2
> lives as jsonb? I have a hard time imagining someone dealing with the
> incompatibility that a user-facing hstore2 would introduce, while
> still preferring hstore syntax over json syntax given the choice.
> There are very rich facilities for manipulating json available in
> every programming language. The same is not true of hstore.
It's true for perl. Syntax of hstore is close to hash/array syntax and it's easy
serialize/deserialize hstore to/from perl. Syntax of hstore was inspired by perl.

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