Re: proposal: jsonb_populate_array

Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>

From: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>

To: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>

Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2023-08-14T13:47:27Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2023-08-14 09:11, Erik Rijkers wrote:
>   , '$' returning date[]

I certainly like that syntax better.

It's not that the "here's a null to tell you the type I want"
is terribly unclear, but it seems not to be an idiom I have
seen a lot of in PostgreSQL before now. Are there other places
it's currently used that I've overlooked?

Regards,
-Chap