Re: jsonb array-style subscripting

On 8/17/15 4:25 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 02:18 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> >On 8/17/15 3:33 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> >>Again, how do we handle missing keys? Just return NULL? or ERROR? I'd
>>> >>prefer the former, but there will be arguments the other way.
>> >
>> >I've been wondering if we should add some kind of "strict" JSON. My big
>> >concern is throwing an error if you try to provide duplicate keys, but
>> >it seems reasonable that json_strict would throw an error if you try to
>> >reference something that doesn't exist.
> Only if there's demand for it. Is there?

I'm certainly worried (paranoid?) about it. Postgres is very good about
not silently dropping data and this seems a glaring departure from that.
I haven't looked yet but I'm hoping this could at least be added as an
extension without duplicating a bunch of the existing JSON stuff.
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