2010/11/9 David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>:
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
>>> You realize you can pretty much do all this with hstore, right?
>>
>> hstore has similar functionality, but missing a some details and add
>> lot of other functionality - it doesn't identify type of field.
>> Personally - it is nothing what I like - but can be better than
>> nothing.
>
> The JSON data type will give you some basic types (text, number, boolean).
>
yes, but it's same - transformation via text, and still it's more than
less hack - when you like to iterate over record, then you need to
transform record (generic and basic type) to JSON and then to text.
It's nothing nice - and I don't see a difference between a use a
Plperl or JSON.
Pavel
> Best,
>
> David
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