2010/11/9 David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com>: > On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > >>> You realize you can pretty much do all this with hstore, right? >> >> hstore has similar functionality, but missing a some details and add >> lot of other functionality - it doesn't identify type of field. >> Personally - it is nothing what I like - but can be better than >> nothing. > > The JSON data type will give you some basic types (text, number, boolean). >
yes, but it's same - transformation via text, and still it's more than less hack - when you like to iterate over record, then you need to transform record (generic and basic type) to JSON and then to text. It's nothing nice - and I don't see a difference between a use a Plperl or JSON. Pavel > Best, > > David > > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers