On 03/13/2014 10:49 AM, Greg Stark wrote:
> Another question. Is Peter's branch up to date with
> jsonb_populate_record() ? From discussions on list it sounds like the
> plan was to get rid of the use_json_as_text argument but his patch
> still has it.
Yes, we're not changing that, and some people like it anyway. The API is
intentionally the same as the legacy json_populate_record API.
>
> (Tangentially, I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to make this a
> plain cast. I'm not sure but I think it's possible to have a cast to a
> polymorphic type and peek at runtime at the record definition to
> determine what to do).
>
If you can simplify it be my guest.
cheers
andrew