Re: JSON/JSONB documentation, aggregate functions

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 08:08:04PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-json.html
> Description:
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> 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.

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