Re: making the backend's json parser work in frontend code

On 2020-Jan-24, David Steele wrote:

> On 1/24/20 10:00 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > Maybe we can get away with *ignoring* such files, perhaps after emitting
> > a warning.
> 
> I'd prefer an an error (or base64 encoding) rather than just skipping a
> file.  The latter sounds scary.

Well, if the file is "invalid" then evidently Postgres cannot possibly
care about it, so why would it care if it's missing from the backup?

I prefer the encoding scheme myself.  I don't see the point of the
error.

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