From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Tels <nospam-pg-abuse(at)bloodgate(dot)com>, Suraj Kharage <suraj(dot)kharage(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh(dot)lathia(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: backup manifests |
Date: | 2020-01-02 02:20:11 |
Message-ID: | 30229.1577931611@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> AFAICS, the only options to make that work with JSON are (1) introduce
> a new hand-coded JSON parser designed for frontend operation, (2) add
> a dependency on an external JSON parser that we can use from frontend
> code, or (3) adapt the existing JSON parser used in the backend so
> that it can also be used in the frontend.
> ... I'd
> be willing to do (3) if somebody could explain to me how to solve the
> problems with porting that code to work on the frontend side, but the
> only suggestion so far as to how to do that is to port memory
> contexts, elog/report, and presumably encoding handling to work on the
> frontend side. That seems to me to be an unreasonably large lift,
Yeah, agreed. The only consideration that'd make that a remotely
sane idea is that if somebody did the work, there would be other
uses for it. (One that comes to mind immediately is cleaning up
ecpg's miserably-maintained fork of the backend datetime code.)
But there's no denying that it would be a large amount of work
(if it's even feasible), and nobody has stepped up to volunteer.
It's not reasonable to hold up this particular feature waiting
for that to happen.
If a tab-delimited file can handle this requirement, that seems
like a sane choice to me.
regards, tom lane
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