2010/12/13 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmit...@gmail.com>: > 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. >>
Because hstore is PostgreSQL specific type. More well known syntax is better. More - who know, what is hstore? But everybody know, what is associative array or hash. Pavel >> 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. > > > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
