Re: JSON type unsupported

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>
Cc: Erki Eessaar <erki(dot)eessaar(at)taltech(dot)ee>, "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
Subject: Re: JSON type unsupported
Date: 2023-09-26 17:24:57
Message-ID: 429312.1695749097@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org> writes:
> Thank you for pointing this out. Peter's blog is slightly misleading in
> that we do have the JSON data type, but the T801 feature is far from
> complete.

> For example, we do not have the JSON_SERIALIZE(), JSON()[1],
> JSON_SCALAR() functions. We don't have the IS JSON predicate, or a few
> other things hiding behind T801.

> All in all, I would not say we support the JSON data type the way the
> standard intends, and therefore we should not claim to support T801.

Agreed, but should we say "partial support", as we do for some other
feature identifiers?

regards, tom lane

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