Re: jsonb and nested hstore

On 02/28/2014 09:54 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 02/27/2014 01:28 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> How we got here is not the point.  All that matters is what's going to
>> happen from here.  Here are the facts as I see them:
> 
> Well, it certainly matters if we want it in this release.
> 
> As far as I can tell, moving jsonb to contrib basically requires
> rewriting a bunch of code, without actually fixing any of the bugs which
> have been discussed in the more technical reviews.  I'm really unclear
> what, at this point, moving jsonb to /contrib would improve.

It's also make it a lot harder to use in other extensions, something
that's already an issue with hstore.

It should be a core type.

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