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

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2020-01-17T17:41:10Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Hi Robert,

On 1/16/20 11:51 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:37 PM David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> 
>> So the idea here is that json.c will have the JSON SQL functions,
>> jsonb.c the JSONB SQL functions, and jsonapi.c the parser, and
>> jsonfuncs.c the utility functions?
> 
> Uh, I think roughly that, yes. Although I can't claim to fully
> understand everything that's here.

Now that I've spent some time with the code I see your intent was just 
to isolate the JSON lexer code with 0002 and 0003.  As such, I now think 
they are commit-able as is.

Regards,
-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net

Commits

Add jsonapi.c to Mkvcbuild.pm's @pgcommonallfiles.
- 006b9dcad419 13.0 landed
Move jsonapi.c and jsonapi.h to src/common.
- beb4699091e9 13.0 landed
Move some code from jsonapi.c to jsonfuncs.c.
- 73ce2a03f30b 13.0 landed
Adjust pg_parse_json() so that it does not directly ereport().
- 1f3a021730be 13.0 landed
Remove jsonapi.c's lex_accept().
- 530609aa4263 13.0 landed
Split JSON lexer/parser from 'json' data type support.
- 11b5e3e35d39 13.0 landed
Rationalize code placement between wchar.c, encnames.c, and mbutils.c.
- 5afaa2e42655 13.0 landed
Move wchar.c and encnames.c to src/common/.
- e6afa8918c46 13.0 landed
Update header comments for wchar.c and encnames.c.
- 3d4cb5d6c180 13.0 landed
Make StringInfo available to frontend code.
- 26aaf97b683d 13.0 cited
Use SASLprep to normalize passwords for SCRAM authentication.
- 60f11b87a234 10.0 cited