From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Arthur Silva <arthurprs(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Deven Phillips <deven(dot)phillips(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: json-patch support? |
Date: | 2015-03-27 18:40:54 |
Message-ID: | CAHyXU0wsTUgWH2DZDgMkh3NtX6eRt3=TdBGN1EOHUBEteWW1OQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Arthur Silva <arthurprs(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Deven Phillips <deven(dot)phillips(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any plans or ideas about implement JSON Patch
>> (http://jsonpatch.com/) support for PostgreSQL? We deal with some relatively
>> large JSON documents for our in-house application and it is often better to
>> just send a json-patch update rather than the full document. It would be
>> very nice if we could just select for the changes via a trigger and use
>> NOTIFY to tell our application about a patch. If nobody has discussed it
>> previously, perhaps I will look into implementing it myself.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Deven
>
>
> This could be implemented as an extension.
> There're already a few extensions that provide this functionality with plain
> functions, so it's just a matter of parsing the json and executing those
> functions.
Right. If it was me, I'd shoot for a userland (that is, in sql or
pl/pgsql) implementation that wraps the existing json APIs to get the
desired result. From there, could determine if a more optimized
version in C was warranted.
merlin
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