Re: json ->> operator precedence

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:35 AM, John McKown <john(dot)archie(dot)mckown(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> ​​
>
> ​Looks correct to me. As I understand it the ::jsonb is NOT an operator!
> It is a syntactic construct for a CAST(). An equivalent which might make
> more sense is:
>
> select CASE WHEN CAST('{"a":null}' AS JSONB)->>'a' IS NULL THEN 'yes' ELSE
> 'no' END;​​
>
> Oh, an CAST() may look like a function call, but it is also a syntactic
> element. I.e. there is not a function called "CAST".
>
>
​Well, I messed that up a bit. CAST is not a "syntactic element" as I was
thinking. But it's not really a function call either but is closer to a
function call than an operator in nature (I my ignorant opinion) . I was
thinking it was a "compile time" operation, but it, like a function call,
is a run-time operation. I think that using the CASE() makes it plainer
that it is _not_ an operation like ->> or - and makes the precedence issue
plainer.

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