Re: remaining sql/json patches

amit <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

From: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
To: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc@gmail.com>
Cc: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-10-26T02:32:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. SQL/JSON: Various improvements to SQL/JSON query function docs

  2. SQL/JSON: Fix some obsolete comments.

  3. SQL/JSON: Fix issues with DEFAULT .. ON ERROR / EMPTY

  4. JSON_TABLE: Add support for NESTED paths and columns

  5. Fix JsonExpr deparsing to emit QUOTES and WRAPPER correctly

  6. Fix typo introduced in 6185c9737

  7. Add basic JSON_TABLE() functionality

  8. Avoid splitting errmsg string to span multiple lines

  9. Add SQL/JSON query functions

  10. Implement various jsonpath methods

  11. Add soft error handling to some expression nodes

  12. Adjust populate_record_field() to handle errors softly

  13. Refactor code used by jsonpath executor to fetch variables

  14. Test EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON) ... XMLTABLE

  15. Simplify productions for FORMAT JSON [ ENCODING name ]

  16. Add trailing commas to enum definitions

  17. doc: add missing <returnvalue> and whitespace

  18. Add more SQL/JSON constructor functions

  19. Rename a nonterminal used in SQL/JSON grammar

  20. Some refactoring to export json(b) conversion functions

  21. Don't include CaseTestExpr in JsonValueExpr.formatted_expr

  22. Code review for commit b6e1157e7d

  23. Pass constructName to transformJsonValueExpr()

  24. Unify JSON categorize type API and export for external use

  25. Make some indentation in gram.y consistent

  26. Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without requiring AS.

  27. Reduce size of backend scanner's tables.

  28. Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup.

Hi Nikita,

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 2:13 AM Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amit, on previous email, patch #2 - I agree that it is not the best idea to introduce
> new type of logic into the parser, so this logic could be moved to the executor,
> or removed at all. What do you think of these options?

Yes maybe, though I'd first like to have a good answer to why is that
logic necessary at all.  Maybe you think it's better to emit an error
in the SQL/JSON layer of code than in the type input function if it's
unsafe?

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Thanks, Amit Langote
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