Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> As far as your request for a better error message is concerned, I'm a
>> bit inclined to lay the blame on array_in rather than the JSON code.
>> Wouldn't it be better if it said
>>
>> ERROR: invalid input syntax for array: "["potter","chef","programmer"]"
>> DETAIL: Dimension value is missing.
> Sounds pretty reasonable to me, but I would just caution that we should
> check if that's considered 'leakproof' or not (or, if it is, if it'd
> ever possibly leak data it shouldn't or if it would only ever return
> information provided by the user).
array_in could only be regarded as leakproof if every element-type input
function it could ever call is also leakproof. Which ain't the case,
so I sure hope it's not marked that way. (Likewise record_in, range_in,
etc.)
regards, tom lane
