Re: json-patch support?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Deven Phillips <deven(dot)phillips(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Are there any plans or ideas about implement JSON Patch (
> http://jsonpatch.com/) support for PostgreSQL? We deal with some
> relatively large JSON documents for our in-house application and it is
> often better to just send a json-patch update rather than the full
> document. It would be very nice if we could just select for the changes via
> a trigger and use NOTIFY to tell our application about a patch. If nobody
> has discussed it previously, perhaps I will look into implementing it
> myself.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Deven
>

This could be implemented as an extension.
There're already a few extensions that provide this functionality with
plain functions, so it's just a matter of parsing the json and executing
those functions.