Re: Add jsonb_compact(...) for whitespace-free jsonb to text

On 05/02/2016 04:56 AM, Shulgin, Oleksandr wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:22 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net
> <mailto:andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>> wrote:
>
>
> On 04/29/2016 06:11 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> This is a simple matter of removing spaces in the occasional C
> string
> literal in the serialization routines and adding a json_pretty
> function.
>
>
> I spent a few hours on this. See
> <https://bitbucket.org/adunstan/pgdevel/commits/branch/jsonformat>
> for WIP - there are three commits. No regression tests yet for the
> two new functions (json_squash and json_pretty), Otherwise fairly
> complete. Removing whitespace generation was pretty simple for
> both json and jsonb.
>
>
> Looks good, thank you!
>
> It would make sense IMO to rename FormatState's `indent' field as
> `pretty': it's being used to add whitespace between the punctuation,
> not only at start of a line. I'd also move the "if (indent)" check
> out of add_indent(): just don't call it if no indent is needed.
>
> I'll try to play with the patch to produce some regression tests for
> the new functions.
>
>

It was done the way it was to be as consistent as possible with how it's
done for jsonb (c.f. jsonb.c:JsonbToCStringWorker and jsonb.c::add_indent).

cheers

andrew