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From Seamus Abshere
Subject Will there be a JSON operator like ->> but returning numeric?
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hi,

I've got use cases like

> array_remove(array_agg((a->>'b')::float), NULL)

It would be nice to replace (a->>'b')::float with something like

> a->^'b'

that directly returned a numeric... is that in the cards?

Thanks,
Seamus


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