From: | Peter van Hardenberg <pvh(at)pvh(dot)ca> |
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To: | "Sven R(dot) Kunze" <srkunze(at)mail(dot)de> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: SQL/JSON in PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2017-03-09 18:50:55 |
Message-ID: | CABTbUpjRWAaJbt03vi8DBGCwBbVgpU278VNFi3=gmCsvrgob4w@mail.gmail.com |
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Anecdotally, we just stored dates as strings and used a convention (key
ends in "_at", I believe) to interpret them. The lack of support for dates
in JSON is well-known, universally decried... and not a problem the
PostgreSQL community can fix.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze(at)mail(dot)de> wrote:
> On 09.03.2017 18:58, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> Also, even if the superset thing were true on a theoretical plane, I'm
>> not sure it would do us much good in practice. If we start using
>> YAML-specific constructs, we won't have valid JSON any more. If we
>> use only things that are legal in JSON, YAML's irrelevant.
>>
>
> That's true. I just wanted to share my view of the "date guessing" part of
> pgpro's commits.
> I don't have a good solution for it either, I can only tell that where I
> work we do have same issues: either we guess by looking at the string value
> or we know that "this particular key" must be a date.
> Unsatisfied with either solution, we tend to use YAML for our APIs if
> possible.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
>
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