Re: Feature Request: JSON input for hstore

David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> I've just had a feature request from a client that we come up with a
>> way to enable JSON input into hstore.  This would make hstore much
>> more useful for software developers.
>> 
>> First question: would this go in the language driver, libpq, or the
>> backend?  Thoughts?

> The backend, ideally in some pluggable way.  XML, under proper
> circumstances, should work, as should YAML, etc.

Uh, hstore is a contrib module.  Why aren't we talking about just some
more code in the contrib module?  Adding anything to support a contrib
module in, say, libpq seems right out.
        regards, tom lane