Re: SQL/JSON features for v15

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>, Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2022-08-31T12:38:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-08-31 We 07:01, Amit Langote wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 3:51 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  SELECT JSON_VALUE(jsonb '"aaa"', '$' RETURNING int DEFAULT 111 ON ERROR);
>> - json_value
>> -------------
>> -        111
>> -(1 row)
>> -
>> +ERROR:  syntax error at or near "DEFAULT"
>> +LINE 1: ...ELECT JSON_VALUE(jsonb '"aaa"', '$' RETURNING int DEFAULT 11...
>>
>> Is it intentional that you left many instances of the regression test
>> output changes like the above?
> Actually, thinking more about this, I am wondering if we should not
> remove the DEFAULT expression productions in gram.y.  Maybe we can
> keep the syntax and give an unsupported error during parse-analysis,
> like the last version of the patch did for DEFAULT ON EMPTY.  Which
> also means to also leave JsonBehavior alone but with default_expr
> always NULL for now.
>

Producing an error in the parse analysis phase seems best to me.


cheers


andrew

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Commits

  1. JSON_TABLE: Add support for NESTED paths and columns

  2. Add basic JSON_TABLE() functionality

  3. Add SQL/JSON query functions

  4. Add soft error handling to some expression nodes

  5. Adjust populate_record_field() to handle errors softly

  6. Refactor code used by jsonpath executor to fetch variables

  7. Add more SQL/JSON constructor functions

  8. SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate

  9. SQL/JSON: add standard JSON constructor functions

  10. Revert SQL/JSON features

  11. Numeric error suppression in jsonpath