Re: jsonb_set() strictness considered harmful to data

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Floris Van Nee <florisvannee(at)optiver(dot)com>, Ariadne Conill <ariadne(at)dereferenced(dot)org>, Mark Felder <feld(at)freebsd(dot)org>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: jsonb_set() strictness considered harmful to data
Date: 2019-11-28 03:45:54
Message-ID: 25ef9c80-6853-9628-b759-c87b919e24b6@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 11/27/19 9:35 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:45:59PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> Maybe ERRCODE_NULL_VALUE_NOT_ALLOWED, and "NULL is not allowed",
>> errdetail - a exception due setting "null_value_treatment" =>
>> raise_exception
>> and maybe some errhint - "Maybe you would to use Jsonb NULL - "null"::jsonb"
>>
>> I don't know, but in this case, the exception should be verbose. This is
>> "rich" function with lot of functionality
> @Andrew: This patch is waiting on input from you for a couple of days
> now.
>

Will get to this on Friday - tomorrow is Thanksgiving so I'm unlikely to
get to it then.

cheers

andrew

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