| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Patch for 8.5, transformationHook |
| Date: | 2009-08-09 01:28:09 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f070908081828r5cbe2f9aq72022a2ab9196c13@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Jeff Davis<pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The JSON transformation provides functionality which is very similar
>> to what we also offer for XML. I sort of think we ought to just
>> provide that, rather than making it an add-on. I have found it to be
>> a tremendously attractive alternative to XML.
>
> It's worthwhile to think about how we can fit our special cases into
> general APIs -- particularly when we have two similar special cases like
> JSON and XML.
I agree. The way we handle XML is with special syntax that is
hard-coded into the parser. If there is a more flexible solution I'm
all for it, but I'm not sure this is it.
...Robert
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