Re: Major features of 9.0?

On Tuesday 16 February 2010 17:02:39 Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Josh Berkus:
> >> Isn't hstore key/value pair data, rather than schema-less.
> >
> > Well, when the "NoSQL" people talk about "schemaless", that's what they
> > mean.
>
> Some of them have got arbitrarily nested documents involving
> sequences, booleans, sequences of string/document pairs, strings, and
> floats.  Positioning PostgreSQL's simple key/value support against
> that could be a PR mistake. 8-)

A better way to look at it is "improved support for storing semi-structured
and un-structured data".  Because we have pretty good support for that really,
but these changes should make that somewhat better.

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