Re: JSON for PG 9.2

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>

From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Claes Jakobsson <claes@surfar.nu>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

Date: 2012-01-31T18:29:59Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

At 2012-01-31 12:04:31 -0500, robertmhaas@gmail.com wrote:
>
> That fails to answer the question of what we ought to do if we get an
> invalid sequence there.

I think it's best to categorically reject invalid surrogates as early as
possible, considering the number of bugs that are related to them (not
in Postgres, just in general). I can't see anything good coming from
letting them in and leaving them to surprise someone in future.

-- ams