Re: making the backend's json parser work in frontend code

Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>

From: "Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>

To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,"Mark Dilger" <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>,"David Steele" <david@pgmasters.net>,"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2020-01-23T19:08:40Z

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	Robert Haas wrote:

> With the format I proposed, you only have to worry that the
> file name might contain a tab character, because in that format, tab
> is the delimiter

It could be CSV, which has this problem already solved,
is easier to parse than JSON, certainly no less popular,
and is not bound to a specific encoding.

Best regards,
-- 
Daniel Vérité
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