* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > What _would_ be interesting is to move all the hstore code into core, > > and have hstore contrib just call the hstore core parts. That way, you > > have one copy of the code, it is shared with JSONB, but hstore remains > > as an extension that you can change or remove later. > > That seems like an approach possibly worth investigating. It's not > too different from what we did when we moved text search into core. > The basic idea seems to be that we want jsonb in core, and we expect > it to replace hstore, but we can't get just get rid of hstore because > it has too many users.
This might be valuable for hstore, specifically, because we can't easily
move it into core. I'm fine with that- the disagreement I have is with
the more general idea that everything not-defined-by-committee should be
in shim extensions which just provide basically the catalog entries for
types which are otherwise all in core.
Thanks,
Stephen
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