Re: JSON for PG 9.2

On 12/15/2011 01:34 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Joey Adams<joeyadams3(dot)14159(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Issues we've encountered include:
>>
>> * Should JSON be stored as binary or as text?
> Text

Works for me.

>> * How do we deal with Unicode escapes and characters if the server or
>> client encoding is not UTF-8? Some (common!) character encodings have
>> code points that don't map to Unicode. Also, the charset conversion
>> modules do not provide fast entry points for converting individual
>> characters; each conversion involves a funcapi call.
> Make JSON datatypes only selectable if client encoding is UTF-8.

Yuck. Do we have this sort of restriction for any other data type?

ISTM that the encoding problem is at least as likely to be the reverse
of what's above - i.e. that there's a code point in the stored JSON
that's not represented in the client encoding.

cheers

andrew