Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@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?
regards, tom lane