Re: nested hstore patch

On 12/23/13, 9:47 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>     Has anybody looked into how hard it would be to add "method" notation
>     to postgreSQL, so that instead of calling
>
>     getString(hstorevalue, n)
>
>     we could use
>
>     hstorevalue.getString(n)
>
>
> yes, I played with it some years ago. I ended early, there was a problem with parser - when I tried append a new
rule.And because there was not simple solution, I didn't continue.
 
>
> But it can be nice feature - minimally for plpgsql coders.

Isn't there also some major problem with differentiating between schema/table/field with that too? I recall discussion
alongthose lines, though maybe it was for the idea of recursive schemas.
 
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