On 09/24/2012 09:37 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:59 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
This rather overdue mail arises out the developer's meeting back in
May, where we discussed an item I raised suggesting an Oid registry.
The idea came from some difficulties I encountered when I did the
backport of the JSON work we did in 9.2 to 9.1, but has wider
application. Say someone writes an extension that defines type A. You
want to write an extension that takes advantage of that type, but it's
difficult if you don't know the type's Oid,
Could you fill the rest of us in with some technical details about why
this might be necessary and what it aims to achieve?
Well, an obvious case is how record_to_json handles fields. If it knows
nothing about the type all it can do is output the string value. That
doesn't work well for types such as hstore. If it could reliably
recognize a field as an hstore it might well be able to do lots better.
cheers
andrew
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