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Re: JSON for PG 9.2

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Claes Jakobsson <claes@gluefinance.com>, Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>
Date: 2011-12-20T18:26:33Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 07:23:43 PM Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@justatheory.com> writes:
> > holds: it is not a programming language, and one does not need a PL to
> > have a JSON data type.
> Exactly.  That does not contradict the fact that if you have
> pl/ecmascript you already have JSON.  And that we might as well have had
> the ecmascript PL for some time now, we just need to check about that.
Not really. You need to be able to "evaluate" json without it possibly 
executing code. Many js implementations are likely to have such a feature 
though.

Andres