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Re: Missing jsonb_ ... functions on DOCs

Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br> — 2026-05-11T15:07:33Z

Em dom., 10 de mai. de 2026 às 23:08, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
escreveu:

> Well, it seems to me that the intention is that it is pointless to
> document the functions because that the users need only to be aware of
> the operators, and the operators are enough to manipulate the jsonb
> blobs.  Documenting the functions would be just duplicating what we
> already have for the operators, as listed here:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/functions-json.html


A function is self explanatory, an operator is not.

If we do something like what was done in [1], we don't change much on the
page but at the same time we give the user both options.

regards
Marcos

[1] -
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/functions-string.html#FUNCTIONS-STRING-OTHER