Re: json generation enhancements

Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-24T23:33:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 02/24/2013 09:58 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Adding a cast to json for a builtin type will have no effect unless
> you also change this code. We can relax that but my view was that we
> should know how to generate JSON from builtin types and just do it.
If json generation from built-in types is complete with full coverage of
all useful types when this first ships, then I'm happy. I was only
concerned about the BC argument "you can't add a proper json-aware cast
from interval to json because we've already been doing it via a cast to
text and changing the result would break existing code".

That's all I'm worried about, and if that won't be an issue then I'm
perfectly happy.

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