2010/3/13 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> (This will also be my main objection to letting hstore into core.
>>> It has not solved the problem of handling real datatypes.)
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>> Is this problem solvable then?
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> I don't know, but hstore hasn't even tried. We should be very slow
> to institutionalize a "smash everything to text" approach in core.
I agree - text everywhere is bad way
Pavel
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> regards, tom lane
>