Thread: pgsql: Make jsonpath .string() be immutable for datetimes.

pgsql: Make jsonpath .string() be immutable for datetimes.

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Make jsonpath .string() be immutable for datetimes.

Discussion of commit ed055d249 revealed that we don't actually
want jsonpath's .string() method to depend on DateStyle, nor
TimeZone either, because the non-"_tz" jsonpath functions are
supposed to be immutable.  Potentially we could allow a TimeZone
dependency in the "_tz" variants, but it seems better to just
uniformly define this method as returning the same string that
jsonb text output would do.  That's easier to implement too,
saving a couple dozen lines.

Patch by me, per complaint from Peter Eisentraut.  Back-patch
to v17 where this feature came in (in 66ea94e8e).  Also
back-patch ed055d249 to provide test cases.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e8879d0-a3c8-4be2-950f-d83aa2af953a@eisentraut.org

Branch
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REL_17_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cc4fdfa411fa0cd6b27563c37c096bf76120659f

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/func.sgml                       | 19 ++++---
src/backend/utils/adt/jsonpath_exec.c        | 34 +++---------
src/test/regress/expected/horology.out       |  9 +++-
src/test/regress/expected/jsonb_jsonpath.out | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
src/test/regress/sql/horology.sql            |  4 +-
src/test/regress/sql/jsonb_jsonpath.sql      | 20 ++++++-
6 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)