Re: jsonb_object() seems to be buggy. jsonb_build_object() is good.

This:

select jsonb_pretty(jsonb_build_object(
'a'::varchar, 1.7::numeric,
'b'::varchar, 'dog'::varchar,
'c'::varchar, true::boolean
))

allows me to express what I want. That’s a good thing. Are you saying that this:

select jsonb_pretty(jsonb_object(
'{a, 17, b, "dog", c, true}'::varchar[]
))

simply lacks that power of expression and that every item in the array is assumed to be intended to end up as a JSON text primitive value? In other words, do the double quotes around "dog" have no effect? That would be a bad thing—and it would limit the usefulness of the jsonb_object() function.

The doc (“Builds a JSON object out of a text array.”) is simply too terse to inform an answer to this question.

On 14-Feb-2020, at 18:28, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org> wrote:

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 less verbose.
>
> 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 JSON primitive 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