Ryan Kelly <rpkell...@gmail.com> writes: > As long as we make it consistent on both sides of the '=>' (and document > it, too), then I don't really care either way. Currently you have to use > quotes to get an empty key, so I thought it natural to that you should > have to quote to get an empty value.
> I've attached a modified version of Tom's patch which also allows empty > keys. Hm ... I don't agree that keys and values are interchangeable, and I don't see that empty keys are a good thing (whereas empty values are clearly a reasonable edge case). So I think this is going a bit far; it seems to me it'd be giving up a lot of syntax-error detection capability in return for some not-actually-helpful symmetry. On the other hand, I seldom use hstore so I'm probably not the best person to be judging the appropriateness of these options. Any other votes out there? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs