| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ben Uphoff <buphoff(at)villagemd(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why is JSONB field automatically cast as TEXT? |
| Date: | 2018-09-17 18:11:42 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwYRCjohY4j8VwzML2tTPZVanJ0yw_MFnpSKW55NS66RZA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Monday, September 17, 2018, Ben Uphoff <buphoff(at)villagemd(dot)com> wrote:
>
> SELECT (((mytable.ajsonbcolumn -> ‘somedata’::text) -> ‘nested’::text) ->>
> ‘first_name’::text) AS fname FROM mytable
>
> It’s casting the untyped literal constants (somedata, neated, first_name)
to text because everything must be typed. It is not casting the first or
intermediate jsonb results to text. The final output is text because of
the ->> operator.
:: binds more tightly than the other operators.
Jsonb->('somedata'::text)
David J.
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