Re: PATCH: Add hstore_to_json()

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:32 AM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Should we create a json type before adding all kinds of json formatted
>> data?  Or are we content with json as text?
>
> json_data_type++

What would that do for us?

I'm not opposed to it, but it seems like the more important thing
would be to provide functions or operators that can do things like
extract an array, extract a hash key, identify whether something is a
hash, list, or scalar, etc.

...Robert