Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm
>> inclined to think that associating #2 with casts might be better,
>> because clearly casting numerics or bools to JSON ought to act like #2.
>> If we do it as you suggest then casting text to JSON behaves differently
>> from casting anything else to JSON.
> I think this is going to turn into a thicket of semantic ambiguity.
True. Maybe it would be better to *not have* casts as such between JSON
and non-text data types, but make you write something like
json_literal(numeric)
to get a JSON literal representing a value. Then json_literal(text)
would do an unsurprising thing (analogous to quote_literal), and we
could use the casts between text and json for the behavior where the
text is interpreted as a valid JSON object.
> Joseph's proposal also involved foo::text::json::text <> foo::text,
> which seems pretty ugly to me.
Agreed, that's not too nice.
regards, tom lane
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