On 05/18/2015 02:45 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 05/18/2015 11:34 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> I'm not necessarily attached to "+". I just want to make this
>> different to hstore's "||" operator. There should be a similar idiom
>> with jsonb, but that can come later.
> This argument still makes no sense to me. Hstore is not nested. If
> anything, the behavior of || in hstore suggests that we *should* use ||
> for shallow append in JSONB.
>
Yeah, I agree. To me "concatenation" seems a wrong designation of what
is effectively a recursive merge.
I have no objection to us making much clearer in the docs exactly what's
happening with ||.
cheers
andrew
