Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> writes: > I think that it would be a good beginner's project to make pprint() > print JSON.
There's something to be said for that (or, really, for any standardized widely-popular textual data format; but JSON is a perfectly reasonable candidate). > The existing infrastructure is user visible because of GUCs like > debug_print_parse. There is that :-(. The fact that these strings are stored in the catalogs isn't a problem as long as we make the change in a major version upgrade. But to the extent that there is client-side code that expects to make sense of the strings, it could be a problem. Is there any such code? If so, are we really beholden to not break it? It's not like we don't change those data representations routinely anyway ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers