Re: SQL/JSON in PostgreSQL

From: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter van Hardenberg <pvh(at)pvh(dot)ca>, "Sven R(dot) Kunze" <srkunze(at)mail(dot)de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: SQL/JSON in PostgreSQL
Date: 2017-03-10 04:07:02
Message-ID: 47ddb016-a6e7-0ca1-a035-cdc64c31bdfd@2ndquadrant.com
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On 09/03/17 19:50, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> Anecdotally, we just stored dates as strings and used a convention (key
> ends in "_at", I believe) to interpret them. The lack of support for
> dates in JSON is well-known, universally decried... and not a problem
> the PostgreSQL community can fix.
>

The original complain was about JSON_VALUE extracting date but I don't
understand why there is problem with that, the SQL/JSON defines that
behavior. The RETURNING clause there is more or less just shorthand for
casting with some advanced options.

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