Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

Hitoshi Harada wrote:
> 2010/1/4 David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>:
>   
>> On Jan 3, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>     
>>> We allow composites as fields. The biggest mismatch in the type model is probably w.r.t arrays. JSON arrays can be
heterogenousand non-rectangular, AIUI.
 
>>>       
>> Cool, that sounds right.
>>     
>
> Does it mean you should create composite type to create anonymous JSON?
>
>   


No, not in the least. We should still store JSON as text. We should 
simply be able to convert a JSON value to a record of an existing type 
(providing it has the right shape) and a record (of any shape) to JSON.

cheers

andrew