On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Christian Convey < christian.con...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> > wrote: > >> While XPath is expressive and compact, XSLT >> is rather verbose; jq is as expressive as XSLT, but with the compact >> verbosity of XPath. >> > > Instead, your point was that jq seems to have many advantages over > json-path in general, and therefore PG should offer jq instead or, or in > addition to, json-path. > > IMO jq is considerably closer to XSLT than XPath - which leads me to figure that since xml has both that JSON can benefit from jq and json-path. I'm not inclined to dig too deep here but I'd rather take jq in the form of "pl/jq" and have json-path (abstractly) as something that you can use like "pg_catalog.get_value(json, json-path)" David J.
