Re: jsonb concatenate operator's semantics seem questionable - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: jsonb concatenate operator's semantics seem questionable
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In response to Re: jsonb concatenate operator's semantics seem questionable  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> As for raising an error, in principle it's doable, but the code to detect it
> might get messy. Also, I don't want a huge number of knobs. So I'm excited
> about the idea.

I think that that's a bad default behavior, although I don't think
that's what Jim means. Consider our experience with having subscript
operators throw errors -- it complicates certain cases (my complaint
at the time was about expression indexes, but there are others).

-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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