Introduction to hstore
Explore how to enable and utilize the PostgreSQL hstore extension to manage sets of key-value pairs. Understand its role in auditing data changes through triggers and how to query and manipulate hstore data for effective change tracking.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
The PostgreSQL extension, hstore, implements a data type for storing sets of key/value pairs within a single PostgreSQL value. This can be useful in various scenarios, such as rows with many attributes that are rarely examined or semi-structured data. Keys and values are simply text strings.
We could go so far as to say that hstore is a precursor to JSON support in ...