Re: patch: Add JSON datatype to PostgreSQL (GSoC, WIP)

On 08/11/2010 07:33 PM, David Fetter wrote:
>> I would be curious to the benefit of putting it in core. I have no
>> problem with the type but in core?
> If it's not in core, the vast majority of users will not have it
> installed, and nothing, in core or otherwise, will be able to count on
> it.
>
>


You could say that about almost any feature. PostgreSQL is designed to 
be modular, and we can hardly credibly use that as an argument against 
ourselves.

A convincing argument would be that there is another feature we want in 
core that needs or at least could benefit from it.

cheers

andrew