Re: BUG #13884: array_to_json() works incorrectly for non-0-based arrays

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: xtracoder(at)gmail(dot)com, "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #13884: array_to_json() works incorrectly for non-0-based arrays
Date: 2016-01-25 16:57:57
Message-ID: 13299.1453741077@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2016-01-24 11:47 GMT+01:00 <xtracoder(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> When postgres array has no elements at the beginning, array_to_json()
>> generates json array starting at the first initialized value

> It doesn't looks like bug - It hard to say, when is a start of PostgreSQL
> array and how PostgreSQL arrays should be serialized to JSON. First field
> in pg array is a first field in JSON array.

The current behavior looks reasonable to me too. Certainly the proposed
change wouldn't be any more consistent --- what would happen when you had
elements with subscripts less than 1?

regards, tom lane

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