On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:37:04 -0400 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote: > > Hm, it fails on my own machine too (RHEL6, perl 5.10.1), with the > > same "cannot transform this Perl type to jsonb" symptoms. A bit > > of tracing shows that SvTYPE(in) is returning SVt_PVIV in some > > of the failing cases, and SVt_PVNV in others. > > I tried to fix this by reducing the amount of knowledge that function > embeds about the possible SvTYPEs. After the special cases for AV, > HV, and NULL, the attached just tests SvIOK, SvNOK, and SvPOK, and > does the right thing for each case. > > This results in one change in the module's test results: the example > that thinks it's returning a regexp match result no longer fails, > but just returns the scalar result (0). I'm inclined to think that > this is correct/desirable and the existing behavior is an accidental > artifact of not coping with Perl's various augmented representations > of scalar values. > > Thoughts? > > regards, tom lane > Hello, I don't think that user expect having 0 in jsonb when they have regexp: it should have a possibility to convert resulting jsonb back to perl with exact same type and data. -- Anthony Bykov Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com The Russian Postgres Company