Re: json api WIP patch

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:04 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 07:52:56PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 01/14/2013 07:36 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> >While testing this I noticed that integer based 'get' routines are
>> >zero based -- was this intentional?  Virtually all other aspects of
>> >SQL are 1 based:
>> >
>> >postgres=# select json_get('[1,2,3]', 1);
>> >  json_get
>> >----------
>> >  2
>> >(1 row)
>> >
>> >postgres=# select json_get('[1,2,3]', 0);
>> >  json_get
>> >----------
>> >  1
>> >(1 row)
>>
>> Yes. it's intentional. SQL arrays might be 1-based by default, but
>> JavaScript arrays are not. JsonPath and similar gadgets treat the
>> arrays as zero-based. I suspect the Json-using community would not
>> thank us for being overly SQL-centric on this - and I say that as
>> someone who has always thought zero based arrays were a major design
>> mistake, responsible for countless off-by-one errors.
>
> Perhaps we could compromise by making arrays 0.5-based.

Well, I'm not prepared to argue with Andrew in this one.  It was
surprising behavior to me, but that's sample size one.

merlin