Re: json functions

From: Jayadevan M <jayadevan(dot)maymala(at)ibsplc(dot)com>
To: 'Merlin Moncure' <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com" <maymala(dot)jayadevan(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: json functions
Date: 2013-06-20 03:24:43
Message-ID: 3411BBAFF5A2244FA405CC91D9473A6023698C46@PBOX2.ibsplc.com
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Hi,
>json_send like all send functions is internal. Not all functions available in the
>catalog are exposed through SQL -- for example they may be used to serialize
>data for transmission over the wire. If you can handle C you can hunt down
>the location of the function to see what it does (which isn't much since json is
>an already serialized format).
OK. That explains it. I was wondering why we have quite a few functions under pg_catalog and just a few in the documentation. Thank you.
Regards,
Jayadevan

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