Re: Table 9-40. json and jsonb Operators - Data could be more informative

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: ameenahsanma(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Table 9-40. json and jsonb Operators - Data could be more informative
Date: 2019-10-17 01:42:16
Message-ID: 20191017014216.GE5605@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:53:07AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> the table 9.40, json and jsonb operators
> lists '->>' and '#>>' operators and the difference written is the second one
> go to the specific location.
>
> I am not an expert in postgres!
> But from my experience,
> '#>>' can also parse the data when it is a stringified JSON, having escape
> charterers in it!

Input is always welcome, thanks!

> for ex :
> for a scalar value in jsonb : "{\"attr\":\"value\"}", from which we cannot
> read keys or values as such,
>
> Query : select (column #>> '{}') from table;
> will give parsed json : {"attr" : "value"} from which keys and values can be
> extracted.
>
> please mention is there if it is right, as i struggled a lot to figure it
> out!
>
> PS: pardon my language, and my concern if it is not right!

Perhaps this could be improved. How would you shape that as a patch?
From the source tree you would need to change the table around the
section "Processing and Creating JSON Data" in src/sgml/func.sgml.
--
Michael

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