On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> *All* non-sql standard types ought to be in extensions in an ideal world. > > While there's certainly much to be said for the idea that jsonb should be > an extension, I don't think we have the technology to package it as a > *separate* extension; it'd have to be included in the hstore extension. > Which is weird, and quite a mixed message from the marketing standpoint. > If I understand Josh's vision of the future, he's expecting that hstore > will gradually die off in favor of jsonb, so we don't really want to > present the latter as the ugly stepchild. > > Just out of curiosity, exactly what features are missing from jsonb > today that are available with hstore? How long would it take to > copy-and-paste all that code, if someone were to decide to do the > work instead of argue about it?
I believe the main thing is the opclasses. My information might be incomplete. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
