On 01/30/2014 01:03 PM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
On 01/30/2014 06:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
On 01/30/2014 12:34 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>
wrote:
Now, if we're agreed on that, I then also wonder if the 'as_text'
argument needs to exist at all for the populate functions except for
backwards compatibility on the json side (not jsonb). For
non-complex
structures it does best effort casting anyways so the flag is moot.
Well, I could certainly look at making the populate_record{set} and
to_record{set} logic handle types that are arrays or composites
inside the
record. It might not be terribly hard to do - not sure.
A quick analysis suggests that this is fixable with fairly minimal
disturbance in the jsonb case.
As row_to_json() works with arbitrarily complex nested types (for
example row having a field
of type array of another (table)type containing arrays of third type) it
would be really nice if
you can get the result back into that row without too much hassle.
and it should be ok to treat json as "source type" and require it to be
translated to jsonb
for more complex operations
Might be possible.
In the json case it would probably involve
reparsing the inner json. That's probably doable, because the
routines are
all reentrant, but not likely to be terribly efficient. It will also
be a
deal more work.
Right. Also the text json functions are already in the wild anyways
-- that's not in the scope of this patch so if they need to be fixed
that could be done later.
ISTM then the right course of action is to point jsonb 'populate'
variants at hstore implementation, not the text json one and remove
the 'as text' argument. Being able to ditch that argument is the main
reason why I think this should be handled now (not forcing hstore
dependency to handle complex json is gravy).
We can't reference any hstore code in jsonb. There is no guarantee
that hstore will even be loaded.
We'd have to move that code from hstore to jsonb_support.c and then
make hstore refer to it.
Or just copy it and leave hstore alone - the code duplication is not
terribly huge
here and hstore might still want to develop independently.
We have gone to great deal of trouble to make jsonb and nested hstore
more or less incarnations of the same thing. The new hstore relies
heavily on the new jsonb. So what you're suggesting is the opposite of
what's been developed these last months.
cheers
andrew
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