On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:08 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@justatheory.com> wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> While playing with Andrew’s JSON enhancements, I noticed this:
>
> david=# select * From json_each_as_text('{"baz": null}'::json);
> key | value
> -----+-------
> baz | null
>
> It is returning 'null'::text there, not NULL::text. I had expected the
> latter, because otherwise it's not possible to tell the difference between
> '{"foo": null}' and '{"foo": "null"}'.
IMO, this is bug in proposed implementation. json unquoted null
should not map to string 'null' but to SQL, casting behavior from
text as implemented looks correct. (only SQL null should produce json
null)
merlin
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