Re: [PATCH] Generalized JSON output functions

> > we talking about output - I can imagine, so there is only two possibilities
> > - plain join, and pretty formatted join (but with only one style).
>
> This makes sense.  Postgres core really only needs to support the
> minimum styles necessary for core requirements.  This means raw
> unformatted json for data productions to client and an appropriate
> formatting for explain.  Fancier stuff like a generic formatted is
> fine but those features *belong in an extension*.

The thing is - it's not only about whitespace, otherwise I would probably not bother with the generic interface. For my original problem, there is simply no way to do this correctly in an extension w/o copying over all of the logic from json.c, which I have to do right now, would rather not.

Alex