On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The usability issue could be fixed by teaching the planner to fold a
> construct like (jsonb ->> 'foo')::numeric into (jsonb ->># 'foo').
> But I'm not sure how we do that except in a really ugly and ad-hoc
> fashion.
It would be doable if you could have polymorphism on return type, and
teach the planner to interpret (jsonb ->> 'foo')::numeric as the
operator with a numeric return type.
That's a trickier business even, but it could be far more useful and
generically helpful than ->>#.
Tricky part is what to do when the cast is missing.
