On 02/25/2015 03:13 AM, Thom Brown wrote:
>     Can you think of a reasonable syntax for doing that via operators?  I
>     can imagine that as a json_path function, i.e.:
> 
>     jsonb_add_to_path(jsonb, text[], jsonb)
> 
>     or where the end of the path is an array:
> 
>     jsonb_add_to_path(jsonb, text[], text|int|float|bool)
> 
>     But I simply can't imagine an operator syntax which would make it clear
>     what the user intended.
> 
> 
> No, there probably isn't a sane operator syntax for such an operation. 
> A function would be nice.  I'd just want to avoid hacking away at arrays
> by exploding them, adding a value then re-arraying them and replacing
> the value.

Well, anyway, that doesn't seem like a reason to block the patch.
Rather, it's a reason to create another one for 9.6 ...


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