On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:53:04PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > ... I would also expect that depending on an external package > > would provoke significant opposition. If we suck the code into core, > > then we have to keep it up to date with the upstream, which is a > > significant maintenance burden - look at all the time Tom has spent on > > snowball, regex, and time zone code over the years. > > Also worth noting is that we have a seriously bad track record about > choosing external packages to depend on. The regex code has no upstream > maintainer anymore (well, the Tcl guys seem to think that *we* are > upstream for that now), and snowball is next door to moribund. > With C not being a particularly hip language to develop in anymore, > it wouldn't surprise me in the least for any C-code JSON parser > we might pick to go dead pretty soon.
Given jq's extreme popularity and compatible license, I'd nominate that. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate