Re: Why no jsonb_exists_path()? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Why no jsonb_exists_path()?
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Msg-id 55775AED.7090802@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Why no jsonb_exists_path()?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Why no jsonb_exists_path()?
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On 06/09/2015 02:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> I'm noticing a feature gap for JSONB operators; we have no way to do this:
>> jsonb_col ? ARRAY['key1','key2','key3']
>> ... that is, there is no way for us to check for key existence in an
>> indexable fashion.  Given that @> already can check the whole path
>> including the value, is there some challenge to stopping just short of
>> the value I'm not seeing?  Or is this just a "didn't get to it yet" issue?
> Hm, well, the jsonb_path_ops opclass couldn't do it, because what it
> indexes is hashes that include the value.  I suppose jsonb_ops could
> look for entries that match all of the keys and then see if the ordering
> is correct.
>
>             


It looks to me like we'd need to index all paths in a document, or 
possibly hashes of all paths in a document. I don't think anything we 
have now will help much, unless my understanding is way off.

cheers

andrew



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