Re: json (b) and null fields - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: json (b) and null fields
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Msg-id 5429C361.7060906@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: json (b) and null fields  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 09/29/2014 04:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.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.
>
>             


Yes, if we had pretty printing functions we could deprecate and 
eventually remove row_to_json and array_to_json. That's probably worth 
putting on the TODO list.

cheers

andrew



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