Re: patch: General purpose utility functions used by the JSON data type

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:05 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:59:48PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Joseph Adams
>> <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Indeed, a built-in JSON data type will certainly not need it.
>> > However, users may want to return enums from procedures written in
>> > C, and this function provides a way to do it.
>>
>> Yeah, but I can't see accepting it on speculation.  We'll add it if
>> and when it's clear that it will be generally useful.
>
> Please pardon me for jumping in here, but one of the things people
> really love about PostgreSQL is that when you reach for something,
> it's frequently "just there."
>
> As we're improving enums (allowing them to be altered easily after
> creation, etc.), it seems reasonable to provide ways to return them
> from all kinds of PLs, including making this easier in C.

Maybe so, but it's not clear the interface that Joseph implemented is
the one everyone wants...

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