On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 08:08:04PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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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.
--
Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
EDB https://enterprisedb.com
Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index b2bdbc7d1c..8dd543a2c1 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -15149,6 +15149,12 @@ table2-mapping
<type>jsonb</type>, though not for <type>json</type>. The comparison
operators follow the ordering rules for B-tree operations outlined in
<xref linkend="json-indexing"/>.
+ See also <xref linkend="functions-aggregate"/> for the aggregate
+ function <function>json_agg</function> which aggregates record
+ values as JSON, the aggregate function
+ <function>json_object_agg</function> which aggregates pairs of values
+ into a JSON object, and their <type>jsonb</type> equivalents,
+ <function>jsonb_agg</function> and <function>jsonb_object_agg</function>.
</para>
<table id="functions-json-op-table">
@@ -16604,15 +16610,6 @@ table2-mapping
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
-
- <para>
- See also <xref linkend="functions-aggregate"/> for the aggregate
- function <function>json_agg</function> which aggregates record
- values as JSON, the aggregate function
- <function>json_object_agg</function> which aggregates pairs of values
- into a JSON object, and their <type>jsonb</type> equivalents,
- <function>jsonb_agg</function> and <function>jsonb_object_agg</function>.
- </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="functions-sqljson-path">
