Re: jsonb_set() strictness considered harmful to data

[Mark Felder]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, at 08:52, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> For release 13+, I have given some more thought to what should be done.
> I think the bar for altering the behaviour of a function should be
> rather higher than we have in the present case, and the longer the
> function has been sanctioned by time the higher the bar should be.
> However, I think there is a case to be made for providing a non-strict
> jsonb_set type function. To advance th4e discussion, attached is a POC
> patch that does that. This can also be done as an extension, meaning
> that users of back branches could deploy it immediately. I've tested
> this against release 12, but I think it could go probably all the way
> back to 9.5. The new function is named jsonb_ set_lax, but I'm open to
> bikeshedding.
> 
> 

Thank you Andrew, and I understand the difficulty in making changes to 
functions that already exist in production deployments. An additional function 
like this would be helpful to many.


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  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam & portmgr alumni
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