| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joey Adams <joeyadams3(dot)14159(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Claes Jakobsson <claes(at)surfar(dot)nu>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: JSON for PG 9.2 |
| Date: | 2012-01-20 15:31:26 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoadO1egz3sq3YPqRmoHYbzhxwmyDif4f8MW5EZ6pttCqw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> The code I've written so far does no canonicalization of the input
>> value of any kind, just as we do for XML.
>
> Fair enough.
>
>> So, given that framework, what the patch does is this: if you're using
>> UTF-8, then \uXXXX is accepted, provided that XXXX is something that
>> equates to a legal Unicode code point. It isn't converted to the
>> corresponding character: it's just validated. If you're NOT using
>> UTF-8, then it allows \uXXXX for code points up through 127 (which we
>> assume are the same in all encodings) and anything higher than that is
>> rejected.
>
> This seems a bit silly. If you're going to leave the escape sequence as
> ASCII, then why not just validate that it names a legal Unicode code
> point and be done? There is no reason whatever that that behavior needs
> to depend on the database encoding.
Mostly because that would prevent us from adding canonicalization in
the future, AFAICS, and I don't want to back myself into a corner.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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