On 15/02/2020 03:21, Bryn Llewellyn wrote:
> Now execute this supposed functional equivalent:
>
> select jsonb_pretty(jsonb_object(
> '{a, 17, b, "dog", c, true}'::varchar[]
> ))
>
> It is meant to be a nice alternative when you want to build an object (rather than an array) because the syntax is
lessverbose.
>
> However, it gets the wrong answer, thus:
>
> { +
> "a": "17", +
> "b": "dog",+
> "c": "true"+
> }
>
> Now, the numeric value and the boolean value are double-quoted—in other words, they have been implicitly converted to
JSONprimitive text values.
They haven't been implicitly converted, you gave an array of varchars.
How should it know that you don't want texts?
> Do you agree that this is a bug?
No.
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Vik Fearing
