Re: jsonb generator functions

On 12/12/2014 01:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> Also here is a patch factored out which applies the
>>> find_coercion_pathway change to json.c. I'm inclined to say we should
>>> backpatch this to 9.4 (and with a small change 9.3). Thoughts?
> Meh.  Maybe I'm just feeling gunshy because I broke something within
> the past 24 hours, but at this point (with 9.4.0 wrap only 3 days away)
> I'm inclined to avoid any 9.4 code churn that's not clearly necessary.
> You argued upthread that this change would not result in any behavioral
> changes in which cast method gets selected.  If that's true, then we don't
> really need to back-patch; while if it turns out not to be true, we
> definitely don't want it in 9.3 and I'd argue it's too late for 9.4 also.
>
> In short, I think it's fine for the 9.4 JSON code to start diverging
> from HEAD at this point ...

Ok

cheers

andrew