Re: hstore improvements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: hstore improvements?
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Msg-id 59900223-9304-448B-8130-1D9B9C5A831A@hi-media.com
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In response to Re: hstore improvements?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Hi,

Le 19 mars 09 à 21:23, Josh Berkus a écrit :
>> One request I've had is to construct a record (of some supplied
>> composite type) from an hstore.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is even possible; I'm certainly not seeing a way
>> to implement it. Am I missing something?
>
> Well, presumably you'd try to match hstore tags against the
> "columns" of the composite type, and where a tag didn't exist,
> return NULL,and where one isn't in the composite type, ignore it.
> All data would be TEXT.


The problem is more how to have the parser know which data type to
target, because you want to avoid having to create a new cast per each
composite type you want to target.

A solution could maybe look like this:  SELECT hstore_to_composite(hstore_value, null::my_composite_type);

Regards,
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