Hey Pavel, 2010/12/13 Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com>
> Hello > > this is little bit offtopic, sorry. > > I am thinking, so we need a standard associative array support in core > - like Perl, Python or Javascript. So, I don't think, so migration of > hstore to core is good idea. > Could you tell why in-core associative array support would be better than in-core hstore support ? We enjoying to use hstore and thinking that it is implemented great. > > Regards > > Pavel Stehule > > 2010/12/13 Jan Urbański <wulc...@wulczer.org>: > > It would be cool to be able to transparently use hstores as Python > > dictionaries and vice versa. It would be easy enough with hstore as a > > core type, but with hstore as an addon it's not that easy. > > > > There was talk about including hstore in core, is there still chance for > > that to happen in 9.1? I'd like to include hstore<->dict handling, but > > with hstore out-of-core the only half-sane way I see is: > > * hack PL/Python's makefile to add -Icontrib/hstore (yuck!) > > * create an extension module for Python that knows how to handle > > hstores that would live next to plpython.so > > * install it in $libdir on make install > > * when PL/Python receives or is asked to create an hstore, load the > > extension module and use it to parse the value (ugly, probably slow) > > * the module would also have to make sure hstore.so is loaded in the > > database, which in itself is not pretty, as it would refer to > > hstore_in/out symbols > > > > I wrote a module that can be used with current PL/Python to simplify > > hstore handling (https://github.com/wulczer/pyhstore), but it suffers > > from most of the aforementioned problems, and on top of that you get > > hstore->text->dict instead of just hstore->dict, which sucks. > > > > Cheers, > > Jan > > > > -- > > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > > To make changes to your subscription: > > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- // Dmitriy.
