On 03/05/2014 09:26 AM, Robert Haas 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
Yes, please! This was the original approach that we talked about and
everyone agreed to, and what Andrew has been trying to implement.
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