Re: Extract numeric filed in JSONB more effectively

> An incompatible issue at error message level is found during test:
> create table jb(a jsonb);
> insert into jb select '{"a": "a"}'::jsonb;
> select (a->'a')::int4 from jb;
>
> master: ERROR: cannot cast jsonb string to type *integer*
> patch: ERROR: cannot cast jsonb string to type *numeric*
>
> That's mainly because we first extract the field to numeric and
> then cast it to int4 and the error raised at the first step and it
> doesn't know the final type. One way to fix it is adding a 2nd
> argument for jsonb_finish_numeric for the real type, but
> it looks weird and more suggestions on this would be good.
>
>
v12 is attached to address the above issue, I added a new argument
named target_oid for jsonb_finish_numeric so that it can raise a
correct error message. I also fixed the issue reported by opr_sanity
in this version.

Chap, do you still think we should refactor the code for the previous
existing functions like jsonb_object_field for less code duplication
purpose? I think we should not do it because a). The code duplication
is just ~10 rows. b). If we do the refactor, we have to implement
two DirectFunctionCall1. Point b) is the key reason I am not willing
to do it. Or do I miss other important reasons?

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Best Regards
Andy Fan