PGCon2013 - Final Release

PGCon 2013
The PostgreSQL Conference

Speakers
Oleg Bartunov
Teodor Sigaev
Schedule
Day Talks - Day 2 - 2013-05-24
Room MRT 221
Start time 16:30
Duration 01:00
Info
ID 518
Event type Lecture
Track Hacking
Language used for presentation English

One step forward true json data type.

Nested hstore with arrays support.

We present a prototype of nested hstore data type with arrays support. We consider the new hstore as a step forward true json data type.

Recently, PostgreSQL got json data type, which basically is a string storage with validity checking for stored values and some related functions. To be a real data type, it has to have a binary representation, development of which could be a big project if started from scratch. Hstore is a popular data type, we developed years ago to facilitate working with semi-structured data in PostgreSQL. It is mature and widely used data type with indexing support. Our idea is to extend hstore to be nested (value can be also hstore) data type and add support of arrays, so its binary representation can be shared with json. We present a working prototype of a new hstore data type and discuss some design and implementation issues.