Re: SQL/JSON path: collation for comparisons, minor typos in docs

Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>

From: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
To: Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-08-07T13:11:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi!

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:25 PM Markus Winand <markus.winand@winand.at> wrote:
> I was playing around with JSON path quite a bit and might have found one case where the current implementation doesn’t follow the standard.
>
> The functionality in question are the comparison operators except ==. They use the database default collation rather then the standard-mandated "Unicode codepoint collation” (SQL-2:2016 9.39 General Rule 12 c iii 2 D, last sentence in first paragraph).

Thank you for pointing!  Nikita is about to write a patch fixing that.

> I also found two minor typos in the docs. Patch attached.

Pushed, thanks.

> -markus
> ps.: I’ve created 230 test cases. Besides the WIP topic .datetime(), the collation issue is the only one I found. Excellent work. Down to the SQLSTATEs. For sure the most complete and correct SQL/JSON path implementation I've seen.

Thank you!

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company



Commits

  1. Adjust string comparison in jsonpath

  2. Fix some typos in jsonpath documentation