Re: json casts

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: json casts
Date: 2014-05-28 06:35:16
Message-ID: 538583A4.6000109@dunslane.net
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On 05/27/2014 11:55 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I'd be inclined to think a more useful answer to this issue would be to
>> make json.c special-case timestamps, as it already does for numerics.
> I wonder if anyone besides me is nervous about changing the semantics
> here. It seems like the sort of backward-compatibility break we
> normally avoid. If we do make such a compatibility break, it should
> certainly be release-noted.
>

Yes, certainly it should be.

cheers

andrew

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