Re: json (b) and null fields

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: json (b) and null fields
Date: 2014-09-29 20:32:36
Message-ID: 10962.1412022756@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 09/29/2014 04:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> More to the point, the way to fix any concerns about double parsing is to
>> create row_to_jsonb(), not to plaster a bunch of options on row_to_json().

> row_to_jsonb would be completely redundant with to_jsonb() in my recent
> patch.

Right, which raises the question of whether we shouldn't just be
deprecating both array_to_json() and row_to_json()...

> And I don't want to add options like this there for the same reasons I
> didn't want them in row_to_json().

Agreed. IMO the place to have put the "pretty" functionality was in some
sort of json-to-text conversion function; it never belonged in an input
conversion function.

regards, tom lane

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