Re: bug in json_to_record with arrays

On 11/26/2014 11:54 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tested on 9.4b3, 9.4rc1, 9.5devel
>
> select * from json_to_record('
> {"id":1,"val":"josh","valry":["potter","chef","programmer"]}') as r(id
> int, val text, valry text[]);
>
> ERROR: missing dimension value
>
> With some experimentation, I can't find any way to convert a JSON array
> to an array field using json_to_record or json_to_recordset. I know
> this worked back in January, though.

Lemme take that back, it didn't work. Just checked an old devel snapshot.

Looks like this is not intended to work, so the only bug is that we need
a less confusing error message.

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