Re: JSON for PG 9.2

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, Claes Jakobsson <claes@surfar.nu>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, 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: 2012-01-20T20:26:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Err, actually, now that I think about it, that might be a problem:
>> what happens if we're trying to test two characters for equality and
>> the encoding conversion fails?
>
> This is surely all entirely doable given the encoding infrastructure
> we already have.  We might need some minor refactoring, eg to have
> a way of not throwing an error, but it's not going to be that hard
> to achieve if somebody wants to do it.  So I still see little reason
> for making the JSON type behave visibly differently in non-UTF8 database
> encodings.

OK.  It feels a little grotty to me, but I'll go with the flow.

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Robert Haas
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