On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> On 05/20/2015 09:16 AM, Shulgin, Oleksandr wrote: > >> >Attached is a patch against master to generalize the JSON-producing >> >functions in utils/adt/json.c and to provide a set of callbacks which can >> >be overridden the same way that is already provided for *parsing* JSON. > >> I'm not necessarily opposed to this, but it sure seems like a lot of >> changes, and moderately invasive ones, to support something that could be >> done, at the cost of reparsing, with a simple loadable extension that I >> could create in a few hours of programming. > > But this seems like a pretty reasonable change to make, no? Doesn't the > total amount of code decrease after this patch? JSON stuff is pretty > new so some refactoring and generalization of what we have is to be > expected.