Re: Proposal: Add JSON support

robertmhaas@gmail.com (Robert Haas) writes:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>> I'd think that you could get quite a long ways on this, at least doing
>>> something like dbslayer without *necessarily* needing to do terribly
>>> much work inside the DB engine.
>>
>> There's actually an HTTP framework tool for Postgres which already does
>> something of the sort.  It was introduced at pgCon 2 years ago ... will
>> look for.
>
> While it might be interesting to have/find/write a tool that puts an
> HTTP/JSON layer around the DB connection, it's pretty much entirely
> unrelated to the proposed project of creating a json type with
> PostgreSQL analagous to the xml type we already have, which is what
> the OP is proposing to do.
>
> Personally, I suspect that a JSON type is both a more interesting
> project to work on and a more useful result for this community.

No disagreement here; I'd expect that a JSON type would significantly
ease building such a framework.  Indeed, that could be a demonstration
of success...  

"We then implemented an HTTP/JSON proxy in 27 lines of Python code..."
:-)
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