On Nov 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> wrote:
>> It’s syntax is different than JSON, so one would need to convert to
>> and from JSON all the time to parse and serialize. PITA.
>
> Oh I misremembered about that, I though it would take JSON as input
> as-is and could be made to output JSON. And IIRC the community input at
> pgconf.eu has been to just always output json texts and get rid of the
> formating GUCs.
Yeah, but for back-compate, it has to use => instead of : to separate keys from values, and cannot use braces for a
root-levelobject. :-(
> Now, if it turns out that the new hstore is not dealing with json input
> and output, we could have json, jstore and hstore.
That's where this is headed, yes.
David