Re: [GENERAL] Stability of JSON textual representation

2015-02-09 Thread David Evans
On 9 February 2015 at 03:57, Gavin Flower wrote: > > Would using jsonb be more consistent? > Yes, casting to jsonb seems produce consistent output: # SELECT array_to_json(array[1, 2, 3])::jsonb, json_build_array(1, 2, 3)::jsonb; array_to_json | json_build_array ---+

[GENERAL] Stability of JSON textual representation

2015-02-08 Thread David Evans
I've noticed that when representing lists as JSON, Postgres 9.4 sometimes outputs spaces after commas, and other times does not. # SELECT array_to_json(array[1, 2, 3]), json_build_array(1, 2, 3); array_to_json | json_build_array ---+-- [1,2,3] | [1, 2, 3] Thi