Hstore Postgres 9.4

[hafizio]

Hi there, thank you for this gem which is very useful.

My question is, how does this gem different from the nested array support in posgres 9.4? I noticed that the default hstore is storing nested element as string and not the original data type. Is there any other differences? Thank you in advance!

[glennfu]

If you store this natively:

model.data = {
  foo: "bar",
  thing: { asdf: "zxcv" }
}

You'll find that model.data["thing"].class == "String" instead of "Hash". With this plugin, it'll be a Hash. This applies also to Arrays and other primitive types.