Re: JSON for PG 9.2

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: JSON for PG 9.2
Date: 2012-01-31 17:58:08
Message-ID: 4F282BB0.4060309@dunslane.net
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On 01/30/2012 10:37 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>> Aside: is query_to_json really necessary? It seems rather ugly and
>> easily avoidable using row_to_json.
>>
>
> I started with this, again by analogy with query_to_xml(). But I agree
> it's a bit ugly. If we're not going to do it, then we definitely need
> to look at caching the output funcs in the function info. A closer
> approximation is actually:
>
> SELECT array_to_json(array_agg(q))
> FROM ( your query here ) q;
>
>
> But then I'd want the ability to break that up a bit with line feeds,
> so we'd need to adjust the interface slightly. (Hint: don't try the
> above with "select * from pg_class".)
>
>
> I'll wait on further comments, but I can probably turn these changes
> around very quickly once we're agreed.
>
>
>

based on Abhijit's feeling and some discussion offline, the consensus
seems to be to remove query_to_json.

cheers

andrew

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