Re: BUG #11207: empty path will segfault jsonb #>

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, justin(dot)vanwinkle(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #11207: empty path will segfault jsonb #>
Date: 2014-08-21 19:55:51
Message-ID: 8076.1408650951@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> So will
>> val #>> '{}'
>> now return a dequoted bare scalar string? I think that's where the OP
>> actually came into this.

> If you think the latter should be dequoted, we can probably make it so.

Well, that turned out to be significantly more painful than I expected.
I ended up mostly rewriting get_worker() to make it less of a mess...

regards, tom lane

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