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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Dobes Vandermeer <dobesv@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: HTTP Frontend? (and a brief thought on materialized views)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:31:54 -0400
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On 03/30/2012 09:57 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> What I'm saying is that jsonpath probably isn't the whole story: 
> another way of bulk moving json into native backend structures without 
> parsing would also be very helpful. For example, being able to cast a 
> json document into a record or a record array would be just amazing.

It should be possible. After all, hstore's populate_record() does that. 
If we married that logic up with the json parser we should be half way 
there.

cheers

andrew



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