On Friday, February 14, 2020, Bryn Llewellyn <bryn(at)yugabyte(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> select jsonb_pretty(jsonb_object(
> '{a, 17, b, "dog", c, true}'::varchar[]
> ))
>
> 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 double quotes serve a specific purpose, to allow values containing
commas to be treated as a single value (see syntax details for the exact
rules) in the resulting array of text values. The fact you don’t have to
quote the other strings is a convenience behavior of the feature.
David J.