Re: SQL/JSON path: collation for comparisons, minor typos in docs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alexander Korotkov
Subject Re: SQL/JSON path: collation for comparisons, minor typos in docs
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In response to Re: SQL/JSON path: collation for comparisons, minor typos in docs  (Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>)
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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:11 PM Alexander Korotkov
<a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:25 PM Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at> wrote:
> > I was playing around with JSON path quite a bit and might have found one case where the current implementation
doesn’tfollow the standard. 
> >
> > The functionality in question are the comparison operators except ==. They use the database default collation
ratherthen the standard-mandated "Unicode codepoint collation” (SQL-2:2016 9.39 General Rule 12 c iii 2 D, last
sentencein first paragraph). 
>
> Thank you for pointing!  Nikita is about to write a patch fixing that.

Please, see the attached patch.

Our idea is to not sacrifice "==" operator performance for standard
conformance.  So, "==" remains per-byte comparison.  For consistency
in other operators we compare code points first, then do per-byte
comparison.  In some edge cases, when same Unicode codepoints have
different binary representations in database encoding, this behavior
diverges standard.  In future we can implement strict standard
conformance by normalization of input JSON strings.

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

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