On 8/14/23 15:37, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> po 14. 8. 2023 v 15:09 odesílatel Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl> napsal:
>
>> Op 8/14/23 om 14:51 schreef Pavel Stehule:> po 14. 8. 2023 v 11:32
>> odesílatel Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
>> > with proposed function I can write
>> >
>> > select jsonb_populate_array(null:date[],
>> > '["2023-07-13","2023-07-14"]'::jsonb)
>> >
>> Not yet committed, but outstanding
>> SQL/JSON patches (v11) will let you do:
>>
>> select json_query(
>> '["2023-07-13", "2023-07-14"]'::jsonb
>> , '$' returning date[]
>> );
>> json_query
>> -------------------------
>> {2023-07-13,2023-07-14}
>> (1 row)
>>
>> That's (more or less) what you want, no?
>>
>
> Yes, the functionality is exactly the same, but still maybe for completeness
> the function json_populate_array can be nice.
>
> In old API the transformations between json and row/record types is well
> covered, but for array, only direction array->json is covered
I don't think we should be extending the old API when there are Standard
ways of doing the same thing. In fact, I would like to see the old way
slowly be deprecated.
> I think so this can be +/- 40 lines of C code
It seems to me like a good candidate for an extension.
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Vik Fearing