Re: PATCH: recursive json_populate_record()

On 03/21/2017 01:37 PM, David Steele wrote:
> On 3/16/17 11:54 AM, David Steele wrote:
>> On 2/1/17 12:53 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>> Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> writes:
>>>>> On 25.01.2017 23:58, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>>> I think you need to take a second look at the code you're producing
>>>>>> and realize that it's not so clean either. This extract from
>>>>>> populate_record_field, for example, is pretty horrid:
>>>>
>>>>> But what if we introduce some helper macros like this:
>>>>
>>>>> #define JsValueIsNull(jsv) \
>>>>> ((jsv)->is_json ? !(jsv)->val.json.str \
>>>>> : !(jsv)->val.jsonb || (jsv)->val.jsonb->type == jbvNull)
>>>>
>>>>> #define JsValueIsString(jsv) \
>>>>> ((jsv)->is_json ? (jsv)->val.json.type == JSON_TOKEN_STRING \
>>>>> : (jsv)->val.jsonb && (jsv)->val.jsonb->type == jbvString)
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I was wondering about that too. I'm not sure that you can make
>>>> a reasonable set of helper macros that will fix this, but if you want
>>>> to try, go for it.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, just as a stylistic thing, I find "a?b:c||d" unreadable: I have
>>>> to go back to the manual every darn time to convince myself whether
>>>> that means (a?b:c)||d or a?b:(c||d). It's better not to rely on
>>>> the reader (... or the author) having memorized C's precedence rules
>>>> in quite that much detail. Extra parens help.
>>>
>>> Moved to CF 2017-03 as discussion is going on and more review is
>>> needed on the last set of patches.
>>>
>>
>> The current patches do not apply cleanly at cccbdde:
>>
>> $ git apply ../other/0001-introduce-JsonContainerXxx-macros-v04.patch
>> error: patch failed: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonb_util.c:328
>> error: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonb_util.c: patch does not apply
>> error: patch failed: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonfuncs.c:1266
>> error: src/backend/utils/adt/jsonfuncs.c: patch does not apply
>> error: patch failed: src/include/utils/jsonb.h:218
>> error: src/include/utils/jsonb.h: patch does not apply
>>
>> In addition, it appears a number of suggestions have been made by Tom
>> that warrant new patches. Marked "Waiting on Author".
>
> This thread has been idle for months since Tom's review.
>
> The submission has been marked "Returned with Feedback". Please feel
> free to resubmit to a future commitfest.
>
>

Please revive. I am planning to look at this later this week.

cheers

andrew

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