On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14...@gmail.com> wrote: > On another matter, should the JSON type guard against duplicate member > keys? The JSON RFC says "The names within an object SHOULD be > unique," meaning JSON with duplicate members can be considered valid. > JavaScript interpreters (the ones I tried), PHP, and Python all have > the same behavior: discard the first member in favor of the second. > That is, {"key":1,"key":2} becomes {"key":2}. The XML type throws an > error if a duplicate attribute is present (e.g. '<a href="b" > href="c"/>'::xml).
Hmm. That's tricky. I lean mildly toward throwing an error as being more consistent with the general PG philosophy. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers