Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On fre, 2009-12-18 at 11:51 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> wrote:
>> > On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> >
>> >> Should we create a json type before adding all kinds of json formatted
>> >> data?  Or are we content with json as text?
>> >
>> > json_data_type++
>>
>> What would that do for us?
>
> At the moment it would be more of a placeholder, because if we later
> decide to add full-blown JSON-constructing and -destructing
> functionality, it would be difficult to change the signatures of all the
> existing functionality.

Good thought.

...Robert