Re: [HACKERS] SQL/JSON in PostgreSQL

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Andrew Dunstan
<andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 01/02/2018 02:44 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>>> I am looking on this patch set and it looks very well.
>>>
>>> Personally I dislike any extensions against SQL/JSON in this patch. And
>>> there is lot of extensions there. It doesn't mean so these extensions are
>>> bad, but it should be passed as next step and there should be separate
>>> discussion related to these extensions.
>>>
>>> Please, can you reduce this patch to only SQL/JSON part?
>> +1, our goal is to push the standard to PG 11, which is more or less realistic.
>> Nikita will rearrange the patch set, so patches 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10,
>> 11, 12, which
>> implement SQL/JSON could be applied without extra patches.
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>> Patches 5,6 are desirable, since we can implement custom operators. This is
>> very important for postgres, which is known as extensible database with rich set
>> of extensions. Think about geojson with spatial operators or array
>> operators, for
>> example. But I agree, it's subject of separate thread.
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>> In very extreme case, we could commit for PG 11 only jsonpath-related patches
>> 1,2 and probably 4. I think, that jsonpath is what we really miss in postgres.
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> That seems a bit pessimistic. I hope we can do lots better.

Would love too !

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> It looks to me like patches 1, 7 and 8 can stand alone, and should be
> submitted separately, and we should try to get them committed early.
> These are all small patches - a couple of hundred lines each.

+1

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> Patches 2, 3, and 4 should come next - I included patch 3 because I
> think GIN indexing is going to be critical to success.

agree, we can consider patch 4 later

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> After that 9, 10, 11 and 12.

again, 10 , 12 may be considered later

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> I don't have a problem with the rest, but they should probably have a
> lower priority. If we can get to them well and good.
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> We should stop use the word 'extension' when we don't mean what Postgres
> calls an extension (which is only patch 14 in this case). Call it an
> addition or extra feature or something else. Otherwise it gets confusing.

+1, lets call 'extra'

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> I'm not 100% clear on why we're adding jsonpathx as an extension,
> though. Do we not think most json users will want to use map, reduce etc.?

We decided to do that, since the whole patch set is already big.

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> cheers
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> andrew
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