On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 11:48:21AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 08:08:04PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > Regarding the Json documentation (9.16.1: processing and creating JSON
> > data), I would like to suggest that the reference to
> > json_agg/jsonb_agg/json_object_agg/jsonb_object_agg (section 9.21) be made
> > more prominent. When looking through the list of json[b] processing
> > functions, it's really easy to miss the footnote mentioning the aggregate
> > functions. The list of functions in table 9.47 includes a lot of functions
> > that are *really*similar in purpose to the json aggregator functions, and
> > it's easy to assume that anything related to building JSON[B] objects *must*
> > be listed there. I just spent hours searching for a way to turn one column
> > of keys and one column of values into a JSONB object (without coercing all
> > numeric values to json strings), and I can't imagine I'm the only one.
>
> I see your point --- that the aggregate sentence is at the end of the
> section, after four massive tables. The attached patch moves the
> paragraph up to the end of the section's introductory paragraph.
Patch applied back to PG 10, thanks.
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