On Jul25, 2011, at 02:03 , Florian Pflug wrote: > On Jul25, 2011, at 00:48 , Joey Adams wrote: >> Should we follow the JavaScript standard for rendering numbers (which >> my suggestion approximates)? Or should we use the shortest encoding >> as Florian suggests? > > In the light of the above, consider my suggestion withdrawn. I now think > we should just follow the JavaScript standard as closely as possible. > As you said, it's pretty much the same as your suggestion, just more precise > in the handling of some corner-cases like infinity, nan, +/-0, some > questions of leading and trailing zeros, ...
Just FYI, I browsed through the ECMA Standard you referenced again, and realized that they explicitly forbid JSON numeric values to be NaN or (-)Infinity (Page 205, Step 9 at the top of the page). RFC 4627 seems to take the same stand. I fail to see the wisdom in that, but it's what the standard says... 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
