> In what sense are we really stopping hstore development if hstore2
> lives as jsonb? I have a hard time imagining someone dealing with the
> incompatibility that a user-facing hstore2 would introduce, while
> still preferring hstore syntax over json syntax given the choice.
> There are very rich facilities for manipulating json available in
> every programming language. The same is not true of hstore.
It's true for perl. Syntax of hstore is close to hash/array syntax and it's easy
serialize/deserialize hstore to/from perl. Syntax of hstore was inspired by perl.
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