Re: Another swing at JSON

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Joseph Adams
<joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Joseph Adams
>> <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Attached is a patch that adds a 'json' contrib module.  Although we
>>> may want a built-in JSON data type in the near future, making it a
>>> module (for the time being) has a couple advantages:
>>
>> Is this something you'd hope to get committed at some point, or do you
>> plan to maintain it as an independent project?
>
> I'm hoping to get it committed at some point, perhaps as a module
> soon, and a built-in later.  Plenty of people are still waiting for
> JSON data type support, for example:
>
>    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4995945/optimize-escape-json-in-postgresql-9-0

Well, one thing you'll need to do is rework it for the new 9.1
extensions interface.  Once you're reasonably happy with it, I think
it'd be good to add this to the next CommitFest:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view/open

I'd like to review it more, but it's more than I can tackle at the moment.

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