| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: to_json(NULL) should to return JSON null instead NULL |
| Date: | 2015-08-29 20:06:32 |
| Message-ID: | 55E210C8.4070607@BlueTreble.com |
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On 8/29/15 12:29 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Note that all the to_json functions are strict. In this sense it's
> quite consistent. If we change it to being called on null input,
> what should we return if a null non-scalar is passed in?
>
>
> what is correct from JSON perspective? All fields with NULL
ISTM that the whole purpose of to_json is to properly jsonify something,
and the proper json form for "undefined" is 'null', is it not?
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