Re: jsonb_strip_nulls with arrays?
Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
From: Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-19T21:23:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 18 Jan 2025, at 11:51 AM, Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8 Jan 2025, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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>> On 2024-09-17 Tu 4:53 PM, Florents Tselai wrote:
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>>>> We could, if we're going to do anything at all in this area. Another possibility would be to provide a second optional parameter for json{b}_strip_nulls. That's probably a better way to go.
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>>> Here's a patch that adds that argument (only for jsonb; no json implementation yet)
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>> I think it looks sane. We're not stripping a top level null, which is one thing I looked out for.
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>> I think we need a json implementation as well, though.
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> Thanks for having a Look, Andrew;
> if there aren’t any other objections, I’ll come back with a json implementation too.
Attached is a v2 patch with the missing json implementation.
jsonb one remains the same.

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>> cheers
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>> andrew
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>> Andrew Dunstan
>> EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com <https://www.enterprisedb.com/>
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Allow json{b}_strip_nulls to remove null array elements
- 4603903d294b 18.0 landed