Re: SQL/JSON: functions

út 15. 12. 2020 v 18:00 odesílatel Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
napsal:

> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 21:26, Nikita Glukhov <n(dot)gluhov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
> wrote:
> >
> > Attached 50th version of the patches. Only the documentation was changed
> > since the previous version.
>
> I can imagine the effort required to get to v50, so I salute your efforts.
>
> The document for SQL Standard has now been published as CD
> 9075-2-Foundation (Thanks Peter).
>
> That gives us a clearer picture of what is being voted on and should
> allow Nikita to complete his work.
>
> I suggest we move forwards on this now, but if anyone objects to
> including this in PG14 in favour of waiting for the vote, please say
> so clearly so we can skip to PG15.
>

Maybe this set of patches can be reorganized and divided. Some parts like
json generating functions are almost trivial and without controversions
with clean benefits for users.

The most complexity is related to json_table function. Nikita did a very
good job and implemented this function in maximal conformance with ANSI SQL
with a maximal set of features. On second hand it is hard to do review
because this patch is really complex, and a lot of functionality was not
implemented elsewhere (so isn't possible to compare results). I think it
should be possible to reduce complexity and divide acceptance of json_table
to some steps like basic functionality (on MySQL level), enhanced
functionality (on Oracle level), and full functionality (the Postgres will
be first). This functionality is interesting and maximal conformity with
SQL/JSON is great so I am for merging it. But if it will be divided into
some chronological steps, then there can be higher probability of merging
to upstream in a good time.

Regards

Pavel

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