Re: PATCH: jsonpath string methods: lower, upper, initcap, l/r/btrim, replace, split_part

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: PATCH: jsonpath string methods: lower, upper, initcap, l/r/btrim, replace, split_part
Date: 2025-05-24 16:08:18
Message-ID: D57D3B5E-AF55-4F7F-9E55-FE06EE8ED811@justatheory.com
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On May 23, 2025, at 13:52, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

>> I assume you mean that they’re set at initdb time, so there’s no mutability concern?
>
> Yeah, I think Peter's right and I'm wrong. Obviously this ties into
> our philosophical debate about how immutable is immutable. But as
> long as the functions only depend on locale settings that are fixed
> at database creation, I think it's okay to consider them immutable.
>
> If you were, say, depending on LC_NUMERIC, it would clearly be unsafe
> to consider that immutable, so I'm not quite sure if this is the end
> of the discussion. But for what's mentioned in the thread title,
> I think we only care about LC_CTYPE.

Oh, so maybe all this is moot, and Florents can go ahead and add support for the functions to the non-_tz functions?

Should there be some sort of inventory of what functions can be used in what contexts?

D

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