Re: JSON for PG 9.2

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Peter van Hardenberg <pvh(at)pvh(dot)ca>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Joseph Adams <joeyadams3(dot)14159(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: JSON for PG 9.2
Date: 2011-12-13 05:25:59
Message-ID: 1323753959.20924.17.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On mån, 2011-12-12 at 16:51 -0800, Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> Because we haven't heard from him in a while we've been using PL/V8 to
> validate a JSON datatype simulated by a DOMAIN with a simple
> acceptance function. (See below.) This is not ideally performant but
> thanks to V8's JIT the JSON parser is actually reasonably good.
>
> I think releasing something simple and non-performant with reasonable
> semantics would be the best next step. If it were up to me, I'd
> probably even try to just land PL/V8 as PL/JavaScript for 9.2 if the
> crash bugs and deal breakers can be sifted out.

You don't need a new PL to do that. The existing PLs can also parse
JSON. So that's not nearly enough of a reason to consider adding this
new PL.

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