Re: jsonb concatenate operator's semantics seem questionable

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ilya Ashchepkov <koctep(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: jsonb concatenate operator's semantics seem questionable
Date: 2015-05-18 18:30:45
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTcVMTTeyLPwJrgdWHKPUA+1JO7A6Qiou-5kDa5XutzAQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> I could argue at least as convincingly that what the jsonb || operator does
> is exactly analogous to what hstore's || does.

Again, my concern is not primarily a theoretical one. It's primarily a
practical concern. We are no closer to supporting UPDATEs with jsonb
in an easy, declarative way, unfortunately. That's what I thought that
this was supposed to do, and despite your protestations, if I picked
up that idea other people easily could.

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Peter Geoghegan

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