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From: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
To: Richard Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Langote <[email protected]>
Cc: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
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Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: BUG #19418: SQL/JSON JSON_VALUE() does not conform to ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023(E) 6.34 <JSON value constructor>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:58:25 -0500
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 09:55:10AM +0900, Richard Guo wrote:
>> Hi RMT,
>>
>> I'd like to commit a fix for JSON_ARRAY(subquery) behavior that
>> involves a user-visible incompatibility, and would appreciate your
>> go/no-go since we're past feature freeze.
>>
>> Summary:
>>
>> - JSON_ARRAY(SELECT ...) currently returns NULL over an empty result
>> set, but the SQL/JSON standard requires it to return '[]'.  Fixing
>> this changes user-visible output.
>>
>> - The same patch also fixes a deparsing issue: views defined with
>> JSON_ARRAY(SELECT ...) are dumped back as the internal JSON_ARRAYAGG
>> rewrite instead of the original syntax.

I am fine with committing this for v19, assuming there is consensus on the
patch content.

Heikki/Melanie: Any objections?

-- 
nathan






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