* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@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