Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joey Adams wrote:
> > Forwarding because the mailing list rejected the original message.
>
> Yes, I am seeing email failures to the 'core' email list.
Marc says it is now fixed.
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: Initial Review: JSON contrib modul was: Re: [HACKERS]
> > Another swing at JSON
> > To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
> > Cc: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert
> > Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>,
> > Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, David Fetter
> > <david@fetter.org>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Pg Hackers
> > <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> > <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > > Would it work to have a separate entry point into mbutils.c that lets
> > > you cache the conversion proc caller-side?
> >
> > That sounds like a really good idea. ?There's still the overhead of
> > calling the proc, but I imagine it's a lot less than looking it up.
> >
> > > I think the main problem is
> > > determining the byte length of each source character beforehand.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean. ?The idea is to convert the \uXXXX escape
> > to UTF-8 with unicode_to_utf8 (the length of the resulting UTF-8
> > sequence is easy to compute), call the conversion proc to get the
> > null-terminated database-encoded character, then append the result to
> > whatever StringInfo the string is going into.
> >
> > The only question mark is how big the destination buffer will need to
> > be. ?The maximum number of bytes per char in any supported encoding is
> > 4, but is it possible for one Unicode character to turn into multiple
> > "character"s in the database encoding?
> >
> > While we're at it, should we provide the same capability to the SQL
> > parser? ?Namely, the ability to use \uXXXX escapes above U+007F when
> > the server encoding is not UTF-8?
> >
> > - Joey
> >
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