Re: JSON for PG 9.2

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Claes Jakobsson <claes@surfar.nu>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Jan Urbański <wulczer@wulczer.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

Date: 2012-01-23T22:32:24Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 01/23/2012 05:21 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>> Here's an update that adds row_to_json, plus a bit more cleanup.
> why not call all these functions 'to_json' and overload them?
>

I don't honestly feel that advances clarity much. And we might want to 
overload each at some stage with options that are specific to the datum 
type. We have various foo_to_xml() functions now.

cheers

andrew