Re: PATCH: recursive json_populate_record()

On 2017-03-21 14:31:08 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 03/21/2017 01:37 PM, David Steele wrote:
> > On 3/16/17 11:54 AM, David Steele wrote:
> >> On 2/1/17 12:53 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >>>> Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
> >>>>> On 25.01.2017 23:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>>>> I think you need to take a second look at the code you're producing
> >>>>>> and realize that it's not so clean either. This extract from
> >>>>>> populate_record_field, for example, is pretty horrid:
> >>>>
> >>>>> But what if we introduce some helper macros like this:
> >>>>
> >>>>> #define JsValueIsNull(jsv) \
> >>>>> ((jsv)->is_json ? !(jsv)->val.json.str \
> >>>>> : !(jsv)->val.jsonb || (jsv)->val.jsonb->type == jbvNull)
> >>>>
> >>>>> #define JsValueIsString(jsv) \
> >>>>> ((jsv)->is_json ? (jsv)->val.json.type == JSON_TOKEN_STRING \
> >>>>> : (jsv)->val.jsonb && (jsv)->val.jsonb->type == jbvString)
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I'm not sure that you can make
> >>>> a reasonable set of helper macros that will fix this, but if you want
> >>>> to try, go for it.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW, just as a stylistic thing, I find "a?b:c||d" unreadable: I have
> >>>> to go back to the manual every darn time to convince myself whether
> >>>> that means (a?b:c)||d or a?b:(c||d). It's better not to rely on
> >>>> the reader (... or the author) having memorized C's precedence rules
> >>>> in quite that much detail. Extra parens help.
> >>>
> >>> Moved to CF 2017-03 as discussion is going on and more review is
> >>> needed on the last set of patches.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The current patches do not apply cleanly at cccbdde:
> >>
> >> $ git apply ../other/0001-introduce-JsonContainerXxx-macros-v04.patch
> >> error: patch failed: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonb_util.c:328
> >> error: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonb_util.c: patch does not apply
> >> error: patch failed: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonfuncs.c:1266
> >> error: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonfuncs.c: patch does not apply
> >> error: patch failed: src/include/utils/jsonb.h:218
> >> error: src/include/utils/jsonb.h: patch does not apply
> >>
> >> In addition, it appears a number of suggestions have been made by Tom
> >> that warrant new patches. Marked "Waiting on Author".
> >
> > This thread has been idle for months since Tom's review.
> >
> > The submission has been marked "Returned with Feedback". Please feel
> > free to resubmit to a future commitfest.
> >
> >
>
> Please revive. I am planning to look at this later this week.

Since that was 10 days ago - you're still planning to get this in before
the freeze?

- Andres