Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 08/20/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you think the latter should be dequoted, we can probably make it so.
>> I'm not entirely convinced that's right though: you could argue that
>> dequoting is a function of the -> operator and we applied zero such
>> operators. (I'm not wedded to that argument, just raising it as food
>> for thought.) Comments?
> This seems backwards. -> and #> return legal json. ->> and #>> return
> text, which is dequoted if the result is a scalar string:
Hm. Okay, if you are thinking of it as a datatype transformation rather
than part of the extraction operation, then it makes sense.
regards, tom lane
