Re: mogrify and indent features for jsonb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: mogrify and indent features for jsonb
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In response to Re: mogrify and indent features for jsonb  (Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>)
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On 26 February 2015 at 15:09, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Thom.

Would this support deleting "type" and the value 'dd'

With this patch you can delete them one by one:

 select '{"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": {"type": "json", "stuff": "test"}, "d": ["aa","bb","cc","dd"]}'::jsonb - '{c, type}'::text[] - '{d, -1}'::text[];
                             ?column?                              
-------------------------------------------------------------------
 {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": {"stuff": "test"}, "d": ["aa", "bb", "cc"]}
(1 row)

Doesn't work for me:

# select '{"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": {"type": "json", "stuff": "test"}, "d": ["aa","bb","cc","dd"]}'::jsonb - '{c, type}'::text[] - '{d, -1}'::text[];
ERROR:  operator does not exist: jsonb - text[]
LINE 1: ...ff": "test"}, "d": ["aa","bb","cc","dd"]}'::jsonb - '{c, typ...
                                                             ^
HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.
 
> Is there a way to take the json:
> '{"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": {"type": "json", "stuff": "test"}, "d": ["aa","bb","cc","dd"]}'
> and add "ee" to "d" without replacing it?

No, looks like there is no way to add a new element to array with help of this patch. I suppose this feature can be implemented easy enough inside the "jsonb_concat" function:

 select '{"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": {"type": "json", "stuff": "test"}, "d": ["aa","bb","cc","dd"]}'::jsonb || '{"d": ["ee"]}'::jsonb

but I'm not sure, that it will be the best way.

Yeah, I think that may be problematic.  I agree with Josh that there's probably no sane mix of operators for this, as I would expect your example to replace "d": ["aa","bb","cc","dd"] with "d": ["ee"] rather than append to it.  Hmm... unless we used a + operator, but then I'm not sure what should happen in the instance of '{"d": ["aa"]}' + '{"d": "bb"}'.

--
Thom

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