On 06/04/2015 03:16 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
I'm just skimming here, but if a jsonb_path type is being proposed,
perhaps it would be better not to have operators that take text or
text[] as second argument. We can provide that functionality with just
functions. For example, it will be confusing to have
jsonb 'some json value' - '{foo,bar}'
operate too differently from
jsonb 'some json value' - json_path '{foo,bar}'
And it will be a nasty regression to have 9.5 allow
jsonb 'some json value' - '{foo,bar}'
and then have 9.6 error out with "ambiguous operator" when the json_path
thing is added.
The boat has sailed on this. We have had the #> and #>> operators since
9.3, i.e. even before we got the operators that Peter wants us to adopt
the usage from, and their right hand operands are text arrays with the
same path semantics.
'some jsonb value' - '{foo,bar}' is already ambiguous - the RH operand
could be a single text datum or a text array.
cheers
andrew
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