On 03/06/2014 10:46 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> However, if the new hstore type (compatible with the old one) is the
>> wrapper around jsonb, rather than the other way around, I don't see any
>> problem with it at all. Most future users are almost certainly going to use
>> the json interfaces, but we don't want to leave upgraded users behind. (But
>> of course it has to actually maintain backwards compatibility for that
>> argument to hold)
> Yeah --- all of this turns on whether hstore improvements can be 100%
> upwards compatible or not. If they are, I don't object to including them;
> I'd have said it was wasted effort, but if the work is already done then
> that's moot.
Clearly there are people who want it, or else they would not have
sponsored the work.
We seem to have an emerging consensus on the compatibility issue.
cheers
andrew