Re: json casts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: json casts
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYrmQAC12tBAwtTia+KbG_irCXat25NFoocqi0U1tMsbA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: json casts  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: json casts  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'd be inclined to think a more useful answer to this issue would be to
> make json.c special-case timestamps, as it already does for numerics.

I wonder if anyone besides me is nervous about changing the semantics
here.  It seems like the sort of backward-compatibility break we
normally avoid.  If we do make such a compatibility break, it should
certainly be release-noted.

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Robert Haas
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