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

From: Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
To: Terry Laurenzo <tj(at)laurenzo(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: patch: Add JSON datatype to PostgreSQL (GSoC, WIP)
Date: 2010-10-20 17:15:59
Message-ID: 87vd4wbx9s.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de
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* Terry Laurenzo:

> Agreed. BSON was born out of implementations that either lacked
> arbitrary precision numbers or had a strong affinity to an
> int/floating point way of thinking about numbers. I believe that if
> BSON had an arbitrary precision number type, it would be a proper
> superset of JSON.

But JSON has only double-precision numbers!?

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