On Dec 29, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > I've been mulling this over and I think this is a pretty good idea. > If we could get it done in time for 8.5, we could actually change the > output type of EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON) to the new type. If not, I'm > inclined to say that we should postpone adding any more functions that > generate json output until such time as we have a real type for it. I > wouldn't feel too bad about changing the output type of EXPLAIN > (FORMAT JSON) from text to json in 8.6, because it's relatively > difficult to be depending on that for anything very important. It's > much easier to be depending on something like this, and changing it > later could easily break working applications.
+1 > Anyone have an interest in taking a crack at this? There are a bunch of C libraries listed on http://www.json.org/. Perhaps one has a suitable license and clean enough implementation to be used? Best, David -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers