On Jul25, 2011, at 07:35 , Joey Adams wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Should we mimic IEEE floats and preserve -0 versus +0 while treating >> them as equal? Or should we treat JSON floats like numeric and >> convert -0 to 0 on input? Or should we do something else? I think >> converting -0 to 0 would be a bad idea, as it would violate the >> intuitive assumption that JSON can be used to marshal double-precision >> floats. > > On the other hand, JavaScript's own .toString and JSON.stringify turn > -0 into 0, so JSON can't marshal -0 around, anyway (in practice). Now > I think turning -0 into 0 would be fine for canonicalizing numbers in > json_in.
+1. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
