Re: patch: Add JSON datatype to PostgreSQL (GSoC, WIP)

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-25T00:22:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 06:57:18PM -0400, Joseph Adams wrote:
> A particularly useful aspect of the JSON support is the ability to
> convert PostgreSQL arrays to JSON arrays (using to_json ), as there
> currently isn't any streamlined way to parse arrays in the PostgreSQL
> format client-side (that I know of).
I really would like to address the latter issue some day. I don't know
how many broken implementations I have seen in my, not that long, time
using pg, but it sure is 10+. I also knowingly have written dumbed
down versions.

Andres