Dmitry Dolgov wrote:
> Some time ago the array-style subscripting for the jsonb data type was
> discussed in this mailing list. I think it will be quite convenient to have
> a such nice syntax to update jsonb objects, so I'm trying to implement
> this. I created a patch, that allows doing something like this:
> =# update test_jsonb_subscript set test_json['a']['a1']['a2'] = 42;
FWIW we discussed exactly this during the unconference
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgCon_2015_Developer_Unconference#Direction_of_json_and_jsonb
and Andrew and Tom seemed okay with this syntax.
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