On 01/30/2012 10:37 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>> Aside: is query_to_json really necessary? It seems rather ugly and
>> easily avoidable using row_to_json.
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> I started with this, again by analogy with query_to_xml(). But I agree
> it's a bit ugly. If we're not going to do it, then we definitely need
> to look at caching the output funcs in the function info. A closer
> approximation is actually:
>
> SELECT array_to_json(array_agg(q))
> FROM ( your query here ) q;
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> But then I'd want the ability to break that up a bit with line feeds,
> so we'd need to adjust the interface slightly. (Hint: don't try the
> above with "select * from pg_class".)
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> I'll wait on further comments, but I can probably turn these changes
> around very quickly once we're agreed.
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based on Abhijit's feeling and some discussion offline, the consensus
seems to be to remove query_to_json.
cheers
andrew