On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:06:07 -0500
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
Hello.
I have function with recursive merging objects:
# SELECT jsonb_deep_extend('{"a": {"b": 6}}'::jsonb, '{"a": {"c":
7}}'::jsonb) AS new_jsonb;
new_jsonb
-------------------------{"a": {"b": 6, "c": 7}}
https://github.com/koctep/jsonb-extend
I think this function may be useful for people too.
Could you add it to your patch? I don't have enough time to prepare
patch.
>
> Attached is a patch to provide a number of very useful facilities to
> jsonb that people have asked for. These are based on work by Dmitry
> Dolgov in his jsonbx extension, but I take responsibility for any
> bugs.
>
> The facilities are:
>
> new operations:
>
> concatenation: jsonb || jsonb -> jsonb
> deletion: jsonb - text -> jsonb
> deletion: jsonb - int -> text
>
> new functions:
>
> produce indented text: jsonb_indent(jsonb) -> text
> change an element at a path: jsonb_replace(jsonb, text[], jsonb) ->
> jsonb.
>
>
> It would be relatively trivial to add:
>
> delete an element at a path: jsonb_delete(jsonb, text[]) -> json
>
> and I think we should do that for the sake of completeness.
>
> The docs might need a little extra work, and the indent code
> definitely needs work, which I hope to complete in the next day or
> two, but I wanted to put a stake in the ground.
>
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
