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
