On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > * Nested json arrays are a bit more problematic. What I'd ideally like > is to spit them out in a form that would be successfully parsable as a SQL > array of the appropriate element type. Unfortunately, I think that that > ship has sailed because json_populate_recordset failed to do that in 9.3. > What we should probably do is define this the same as the nested object > case, ie, we spit it out in *json* array format, meaning you can insert it > into a text or json/jsonb field of the result record. Maybe sometime in > the future we can add a json-array-to-SQL-array converter function, but > these functions won't do that.
Not quite following your logic here. 9.3 gave an error for an internally nested array: postgres=# create type foo as(a int, b int[]); postgres=# select * from json_populate_recordset(null::foo, '[{"a": 1, "b": [1,2,3]},{"a": 1, "b": [1,2,3]}]'); ERROR: cannot call json_populate_recordset on a nested object With your proposal this would still fail? TBH, I'd rather this function fail as above than implement a behavior we couldn't take back later. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers