Throw error when assigning jsonb scalar instead of a composite object

Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>

Commit: aa6e46daf5304e8d9e66fefc1a5bd77622ec6402
Author: Alexander Korotkov <akorotkov@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-01-31T20:51:06Z
Releases: 14.0
Throw error when assigning jsonb scalar instead of a composite object

During the jsonb subscripting assignment, the provided path might assume an
object or an array where the source jsonb has a scalar value.  Initial
subscripting assignment logic will skip such an update operation with no
message shown.  This commit makes it throw an error to indicate this type
of situation.

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Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov, Pavel Stehule, Dian M Fay
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Chapman Flack, Merlin Moncure, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Jim Nasby, Josh Berkus, Victor Wagner
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Robert Haas, Oleg Bartunov

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