Re: jsonb, unicode escapes and escaped backslashes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jsonb, unicode escapes and escaped backslashes
Date: 2015-01-28 21:20:57
Message-ID: 8447.1422480057@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> writes:
> While I sympathize with Noah's sentiments, the only thing that makes sense to me is that a JSON text field is treated the same way as we treat text. Right now, that means NUL is not allowed, period.

> If no one has bitched about this with text, is it really that big a problem with JSON?

Oh, people have bitched about it all right ;-). But I think your real
question is how many applications find that restriction to be fatal.
The answer clearly is "not a lot" for text, and I don't see why the
answer would be different for JSON.

regards, tom lane

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